Listening is not merely not talking, though even that is beyond most of our powers; it means taking a vigorous, human interest in what is being told us.
Source: In Barnes & Noble Book of Quotations, by Robert I. Fitzhenry, 1987.
-- Alice Duer Miller, (Jul 28 1874-1942), US poet, author; She is best remembered for White Cliffs, 1941, a long narrative poem extolling Britain's resistance during WW II; also wrote I Have Loved England.