I carry silence with me
the way others carry snapshots
of loved ones.  I offer it
and wait for a response.

—Stephen Dunn

"Lightly, lightly, very lightly,
A wind passes very lightly
And goes away, always very lightly.
And I don’t know what I think
And I don’t want to know."

— Alberto Caeiro (Fernando Pessoa), Complete poems (via 1109-83)