The silence of stones
As someone who is forever picking up pebbles, this struck me. Silent yes, but I have never seen them as...
As silent as … (III)
Blackbirds, as anyone who has been woken by their loud, hearty and varied song early on a summer's day, knows...
Silent as …
Another richly original simile for silence, here attributed to the noiseless movement of a rolling mist. See another silent simile...
Accumulated silence
I found this idea interesting, that suffering comes to lodge in us from the first time we hesitate to speak. ...
Of sound and silence
A startling description of silence, likened to emulsified sound.Â
Silence, after all, is only sound in emulsion.Â
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Silence & music
Music is everywhere, this seems to imply; even silence is gravid with it!
‘Every silence contains music in a state...
Silence or story?
Ivan is the protagonist of Grossman's novel Everything Flows, apparently modelled on his brother in law. This is an account...
As quiet as…
Christopher Logue’s vivid, muscular version of some episodes in the Iliad abounds with striking metaphors – I noted about 60...
As silent as …
Another simile for silence, here combined murderously with talons sharp as black frost. See other silent similes by Williamson...
As noiselessly as …
How many ways to describe quiet? This is one of the most original I have found, along with another describing the...
The garment of silence
The hum of insects, bees buzzing about the flowers, can be one of the most soothing of sounds and George...
Silence seated with a finger to its lips
A sinister silence this, not an absence of sound, but an agent in its own right.
'The silence sat down...
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