The duty of the words is to say just as much as the music has left unsaid and no more.
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From an article in The Vocalist magazine, 1902; cited from Ursula Vaughan Williams RVW (1964) p. 400.Ralph Vaughan Williams
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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Thoughts left unsaid are never wasted.
Henry S. Haskins
And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid…
Jonathan Swift
But we make such mistakes all the time, all through our lives. Wisdom, I suppose, is seeing this and acting upon it before it is too late. But it is often too late, isn’t it? – and those things that we should have said are unsaid, and remain unsaid for ever.
Alexander McCall Smith
In the mental disturbance and effort of writing, what sustains you is the certainty that on every page there is something left unsaid.
Cesare Pavese
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