The other evening I was determined that I would silence this shallow din; that I would walk in various directions and see if there... was not to be found any depth of silence around. As Bonaparte sent out his horsemen in the Red Sea on all sides to find shallow water, so I sent forth my mounted thoughts to find deep water. I left the village and paddled up the river to Fair Haven Pond. As the sun went down, I saw a solitary boatman disporting on the smooth lake. The falling dews seemed to strain and purify the air, and I was smoothed with an infinite stillness. I got the world, as it were, by the nape of the neck, and held it under in the tide of its own events, till it was drowned, and then I let it go down-stream like a dead dog. Vast hollow chambers of silence stretched away on every side, and my being expanded in proportion, and filled them. Then first could I appreciate sound, and find it musical.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I turn my head to sky rains falling, wash the wounds of numbness from my soul.... Turn my heart in tides of fierce renewal, where love and rage run whole. Come drink deep.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Whoever knows he is deep tries to be clear, but whoever wants to seem deep to the crowd tries to be obscure. For the crowd suppose...s that anything it cannot see to the bottom must be deep: it is so timid and goes so unwillingly into the water.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Glendower. I can call spirits from the vasty deep. Hotspur. Why, so can I, or so can any man.... But will they come when you do call for them?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This Duncan Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been... So clear in his great office, that his virtues Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, against The deep damnation of his taking-off.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »