Terry Tempest Williams Quotes About Silence

• When silence is a choice, it is an unnerving presence. When silence is imposed, it is censorship.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Choices, Silence, Censorship

  Terry Tempest Williams (2012). “When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice”, p.19, Macmillan

• Me obsesiona la idea del silencio. Me pasé toda una biblioteca estudiando arte, artistas y sus críticos, filósofos también, sobre el significado y el sentido del color blanco. Soñé con pájaros y osos blancos. Pensé en las páginas blancas de los diarios de mi madre. Me cautivó John Cage y su obra 4'33", su obra maestra del sonido ambiente. También Rauschenberg. Y luego, en algún momento, me dejé llevar. Lo que se pega al alma es lo que se pone en la página. Quizá esa sea la parte desconocida, el misterio, el poder de la página vacía.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Letting Go, Mother, Art

• To hold silence and to be silenced are two very different experiences. And so another theme emerges, that of light and shadow. When we share our voice, who benefits? When we withhold, who benefits? And what are the consequences and costs of both?

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Light, Two, Voice

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• I wonder about silence. Also about darkness. I love the idea that city lights are a "conspiracy" against higher thoughts.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Light, Cities, Ideas

  Terry Tempest Williams (2006). “A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams”, Utah State Univ Pr

• There are different qualities of silence. There's the silence that sustains us, as women, that nourishes us, the silence where I believe our true voice, our authentic voice, dwells. But there's also the silence that censors us, that tells us what we have to say does not want to be heard, should not be heard, has no value. And that if we speak, it will be at our own peril. This kind of silence is deadly. This kind of silence is deadening to who we are as women. And when a woman is silenced, the world is silenced. When a woman speaks, there is an opening.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Believe, Silence, Quality

• Perhaps the Wilderness we fear is the pause between our own heartbeats, the silence that reminds us we live by grace.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Silence, Grace, Wilderness

• We usually recognize a beginning. Endings are more difficult to detect. Most often, they are realized only after reflection. Silence. We are seldom conscious when silence begins—it is only afterward that we realize what we have been a part of. In the night journeys of Canada geese, it is the silence that propels them. Thomas Merton writes, “Silence is the strength of our interior life.… If we fill our lives with silence, then we will live in hope.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Writing, Reflection, Night

  Terry Tempest Williams (2015). “Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place”, p.193, Vintage

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