Quotes About Song

Language is, in other words, not necessary, but voluntary. If it were necessary, it would have stayed simple; it would not agitate our hearts with ever-present loveliness and ever-cresting ambiguity; it would not dream, on its long white bones, of turning into song.

A poem should always have birds in it.

Of course I am thinking the Lord was once young and will never in fact be old. And who else could this be, who goes off down the green path, Carrying his sandals, and singing?

Listen, whatever it is you try to do with your life, nothing will ever dazzle you like the dreams of your body, its spirit longing to fly while the dead-weight bones toss their dark mane and hurry back into the fields of glittering fire where everything, even the great whale, throbs with song.

I think there ought to be a little music here: hum, hum.

and, sometimes, from a lifetime ago and another country such a willing and lilting companion— a song made so obviously for me. At what unknowable cost. And by a stranger.

For hours I wandered over the fields and the only thing that kept me company was a song, it glided along with my delicious dark happiness, my heavy, bristling and aching delight at the world which has been like this forever and forever— the leaves, the birds, the ponds, the loneliness

Song being born of quest he knows this: he must turn silent were he suddenly assaulted with answers. Instead oh hear his wild, caustic, tender warbling ceaselessly unanswered.

We're tenting tonight               on the old camp ground;        Give us a song to cheer        Our weary hearts,               a song of home,        And friends we love so dear.

As Jack hurried up to his room, some words from the Civil War song ran through his mind:        Give us a song to cheer           Our weary hearts, a song of home Ã¢â'¬Â¦

George especially loved the new number for the Queen, "Sensitivity," which wasn't even supposed to be in the show until Jane White, who played the role in New York, said, "Why don't I have a real song? I need a song!" And I loved it, too, because it's just a waltz in the bridge but 5/4 in the A section, even though the musicians always said it was really 5/8. I don't think Daddy ever wrote a song in 5/4 or 5/8.

A robin lighted on a blackthorn at my elbow, and began to sing. The sound came high and sweet and uncaring through all the noise of battle. To this day, whenever I think of the battle for Kaerconan, it brings to mind a robin's song, mingled with the croaking of the ravens.

It was a hymn with the force of a march, a march with the majesty of a hymn. It was a song of soldiers bearing sacred banners and of priests carrying swords. It was an anthem to the sanctity of strength.

It was a hymn with the force of a march, a march with the majesty of a hymn. It was the song of soldiers bearing sacred banners and of priests carrying swords. It was an anthem to the sanctity of strength.

She watched the dark highway and entertained me with her vegetable-soup song, except that now there were people mixed in with the beans and potatoes: Dwayne Ray, Mattie, Esperanza, Lou Ann and all the rest. And me. I was the main ingredient.

the two of us singing "You're Still

Jingle bells, Batman smells, Robin laid an egg. Batmobile Lost its wheel, And Joker got away.

Quadratic reciprocity is the song of love in the land of prime numbers.

Now shall my inward joys arise, And burst into a song; Almighty love inspires my heart, And pleasure tunes my tongue.

Every time I tried to tell you the words just came out wrong, so I'll have to say I love you in a song.

Love songs in particular are so compelling because love is probably the strongest emotion you can have, and I think it's relatable to absolutely everyone, whether it's unrequited love or love.

There's nothing like a love song to give you a good laugh.

O thrush, your song is passing sweet, But never a song that you have sung Is half so sweet as thrushes sang When my dear love and I were young.

Without love it is like having a good song without an audience.