In my Commonplace...

‎"And now," he thought, "I shall hold my mouth. My life has had altogether too many words' I cannot remember now why i have talked so much. Only when i came down here and was silent in the rain was I shown the truth of things. From now on I shall speak no more, but I shall listen to what the sailors will tell me, the people who are familiar with the floating ships, and keep off the bottom of things. I shall go to the end of the world, and hold my mouth."


                                                               -isak dinesen