<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460289" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Sound of Silence</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I’m walking down the street<br>and I hear the sculptor in his house<br>working on his statue of Krishna</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and the chisel rings out on the stone<br>like a bell that wants to tell you something: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">the stone saying, I am perfectly made for this; <br>the chisel saying, I am perfectly made for this; <br>the sculptor saying, this is prayer; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Krishna saying, I shall enter this.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And I hear in the sound of the chisel on the stone, <br>as sure as I know my own name, <br>that the sculptor is listening to all this too.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The bell-like sound lingers in the air<br>as if the air would keep it for ever<br>as the air’s prayer. It’s music.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The clearer the sound<br>of his striking chisel on stone, <br>the deeper the silence</div><div style="margin:10px 0">as if sound and silence between them<br>know a secret: that sounds like this<br>can do anything in the world; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">even call Krishna with their music<br>to play at being stone for us.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The stone’s laughing also: <br>playing at being Krishna.<br>They’re both laughing.<br>The sculptor is smiling too.</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=460289" data-title="The Sound of Silence de Michael Shepherd" data-description="I’m walking down the street and I hear the sculptor in his house working on his statue of Krishna and the chisel rings out on the stone like a bell that wants to tell you something: the stone saying, I am perfectly made for this; the chisel ..."></div> </div> </div>

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