Sermo

“We sit silently:) and watch the world around us. This has taken a lifetime to learn. It seems only the old are able to sit next to one another and not say anything and still feel content. The young, brash and impatient, must always break the silence. It is a waste, for silence is pure. Silence is holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking. This is the great paradox.” 
― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

I asked the heaven of stars 

What I should give my love -- 

It answered me with silence, 

Silence above. 

I asked the darkened sea Down where the fishers go -- It answered me with silence, Silence below. 

Oh, I could give him weeping, Or I could give him song -- But how can I give silence, My whole life long?

by Sara Teasdale