silence

(...)"significant is reverence for the power of silence: silence, in a sense, as the climate for the performative act of expressing language."
em Native American Literature.

"[Silence] is the dimension in which ordinary and extraordinary events take their proper places. In the Indian world, a word is spoken or a song is sung not against, but within the silence. In the telling of a story, there are silences in which words are anticipated or held on to, heard to echo in the still depths of the imagination. In the oral tradition, silence is the sanctuary of sound. Words are wholly alive in the hold of silence, there they are sacred."
Scott Momaday em The Man Made of Words.