Know how to live within yourself: there is in your soul a whole world of mysterious and enchanted thoughts; they will be drowned by the noise without; daylight will drive them away: listen to their singing and be silent.
ATTRIBUTION:
Fyodor Tyutchev (1803–1873), Russian poet. “Silentium,” st. 3 (1836), trans. by Dimitri Obolensky (1965).
