It is often remarked by certain snobs of silence that the constant noise of our society does danger to the spirit as well as the ear. Well, those who love silence and lament its loss in the ubiquitous piped music in shops, mobile phone conversations on trains and the like, are not all merely snobbish about the vulgarity of popular taste or behaviour. Artists have always known that creativity is born of silence, just as the saints, those artists of the soul, have always regarded silent prayer, alongside the Mass, as man’s supreme activity.
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The importance of silence in Christianity
Alain Corbin has written a detailed history of silence
Francis Phillips
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