The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes – ah, that is where the art resides. Artur Schnabel
Lucid intervals and happy pauses. Francis Bacon
An underestimated element in poetry, that reading aloud makes clear, is the pause. I mean especially the force of a pause or a couple of pauses close together, contrasted with a longer unit of grammar. Robert Pinsky
Of all the people insistently expressing their mental vacuity, none has a better excuse for an empty head than the newspaperman: If he pauses to restock his brain, he invites onrushing headlines to trample him flat. Russell Baker
Poetry is a magic of pauses ... not a thing of tunes, but of heightened consciousness. Marianne Moore
Prudent pauses forward business. German Proverb