...listening with absorbed attention more to her voice than to what she was saying, and thinking how like she was, flowering through her voice into beauty in the darkness, to some butterflies he had come across in the Swiss mountains the summer before. When they were folded up they were grey, mothlike creatures that one might easily overlook, but directly they opened their wings they became the loveliest things in the world, all rose-colour or heavenly blue. So had she been to him in the daylight that afternoon,—an ordinary woman, not in any way noticeable; but now listen to her, opening into beauty on the wings of her voice!
Elizabeth von ArnimStichwörter: appreciation butterflies voice hidden-beauty
When silence is a choice, it is an unnerving presence. When silence is imposed, it is censorship.
Terry Tempest WilliamsStichwörter: silence censorship censor voice
words are much stronger than I am.
Terry Tempest WilliamsStichwörter: words strength voice
To withhold words is power. But to share our words with others, openly and honestly, is also power.
Terry Tempest WilliamsStichwörter: words writing voice
Each of us has one. Each voice is distinct and has something to say. Each voice deserves to be heard. But it requires the act of listening.
Terry Tempest WilliamsStichwörter: listen listening voice to-be-heard
Listening over and over to the voices through a family of instruments allowed us to recognize and appreciate the dignity and uniqueness of each living thing in the meadow and forest.
Terry Tempest WilliamsStichwörter: music story listen listening voice peter-the-wolf
To write,” Marguerite Duras remarked, “is also not to speak. It is to keep silent. It is to howl noiselessly.
Terry Tempest WilliamsStichwörter: silence voice silent howl
Finding one’s voice is a process of finding one’s passion.
Terry Tempest WilliamsChoosing with integrity means finding ways to speak up that honor your reality, the reality of others, and your willingness to meet in the center of that large field. It’s hard sometimes.
Terry Tempest WilliamsStichwörter: reality choice integrity honor voice speaking-out speaking choose speaking-up
My voice is born repeatedly in the fields of uncertainty.
Terry Tempest WilliamsStichwörter: uncertainty birth voice
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