<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=459728" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Monastery</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Up the long flight of stairs <br>every tread echoes from stone walls <br>as if to comment on how stillness <br>tells of sound its silent origin. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">In the quiet library, the central table <br>bears a careful written message: <br>‘Silence is spoken here’.. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">and that’s truer than <br>at first it seems to read; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">round the walls, shelves of books <br>as silent as the monks <br>standing upright in their stalls <br>witness words that seek to share; <br>yet ultimately, wave fare well, turn back; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">speak of silence sought and silence found; <br>yet cannot speak of silence; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">in the name of silence, take a book, <br>well-worn, from off the shelf; <br>meet it in the silence of the room, <br>read a few words, and lay it down; <br>glance at the other readers round the room; <br>fall still. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Here, silence speaks of stillness; <br>stillness joys in silence.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</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=459728" data-title="Monastery de Michael Shepherd" data-description="Up the long flight of stairs every tread echoes from stone walls as if to comment on how stillness tells of sound its silent origin. In the quiet library, the central table bears a careful written message: ‘Silence is spoken here’.. a..."></div> </div> </div>

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