Writing

I think poetry and the silence of the inner life are related, are connected — don’t you think? You read a poem, and you say, ‘Ah.’ And then you listen to what it brings out inside of you. And what it is is not words. It’s silence.”

She says silence is “the source of so much of what we need to get through our lives.” It allows us to reach places of

“We do think in words, and the fewer words we know, the more restricted our thoughts. As our vocabulary expands, so does our power to think."

- L'Engle, Madeleine. A Circle of Quiet (The Crosswicks Journals Book 1) (p. 149). Open Road Media. Kindle Edition.