I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice exploitation humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity.

Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best.

Use what talents you possess the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.

There are two kinds of artists in this world those that work because the spirit is in them and they cannot be silent if they would and those that speak from a conscientious desire to make apparent to others the beauty that has awakened their own admiration.

The beauty we love is very silent. It smiles softly to itself but never speaks.

I think that one's art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows.

The art of motherhood involves much silent unobtrusive self-denial an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.

Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed.

No matter how loud the stadium is once you're on that field and that offense walks up to the line it's silent. You can only hear the guys on the field. It's amazing how much concentration you can have when it's required and how powerful your mind is to give it to you.

I saw 'The Artist.' It's really beautiful and it's all done to the letter with all the silent film techniques. The costumes were amazing and the dog is so good.