Silence is more musical than any song.

Taken at face value, the line elevates quiet above performed sound: silence can be “musical” because it heightens attention, makes space for inward hearing, and gives shape to what follows (as rests do in music). Read in a Rossettian key, it also fits her recurring preference for restraint, contemplation, and the unsaid over display or ornament. The claim is paradoxical—silence is not a song—yet it points to an aesthetic and spiritual intuition: the deepest harmonies may be apprehended in stillness, where emotion and meaning are not forced into words or melody but are felt more purely.