Without a Murmur @ artpipe
Without a Murmur “Thou still unravish’d bride of quietness,/Thou foster-child of Silence and slow Time,/” thus begins English poet John Keats’ Ode on a Grecian Urn that sends readers up on a meditation on art and time.
Without a murmur refers to restraint, an act both internal and external. Its prerogative as an idea and a concept is to seek a space for waiting before expression; its murmuring that of an instant reaction to be shared privately with another. This two-edged idea of an internal and external act, tell us of words…