<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=453856" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Silence</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">My father used to say,<br>&quot;Superior people never make long visits,<br>have to be shown Longfellow's grave<br>nor the glass flowers at Harvard.<br>Self reliant like the cat --<br>that takes its prey to privacy,<br>the mouse's limp tail hanging like a shoelace from its mouth --<br>they sometimes enjoy solitude,<br>and can be robbed of speech<br>by speech which has delighted them.<br>The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence;<br>not in silence, but restraint.&quot;<br>Nor was he insincere in saying, &quot;`Make my house your inn'.&quot;<br>Inns are not residences.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Marianne+Moore">Marianne Moore</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=453856" data-title="Silence de Marianne Moore" data-description="My father used to say, &quot;Superior people never make long visits, have to be shown Longfellow's grave nor the glass flowers at Harvard. Self reliant like the cat -- that takes its prey to privacy, the mouse's limp tail hanging like a shoelace f..."></div> </div> </div>

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