Minute Silence

Famous quotes containing the words minute and/or silence:

“The rider, the birds that range
From cloud to tumbling cloud,
Minute by minute they change;”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.”
—Octavio Paz (b. 1914)