Wyndham Lewis Quote

But let me have silence always, in the centre of the shouting—that is essential! Let me have silence so that no pin may drop and not be heard, and not a whisper escape us for all our spouting, nor the needle's scratching upon this gramophone of a circular cosmic spot. Hear me! Mark me! Learn me! Throw the mind's ear open—shut up the mind's eye—all will be music!

Engine Fight-talk: The Song of the Militant Romance, If So the Man You Are, One-way Song, Envoi (ed. 1933)