Quotes About Harp
A gull on an invisible wire attached through space dragged. You carry the symbol of your frustration into eternity. Then the wings are bigger Father said only who can play a harp.
~ William Faulkner
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So many poets die ere they are known, I pray you, hear me kindly for their sake. Not of the harp, but of the soul alone, Is the deep music all true minstrels make: Hear my soul's music, and I will beguile, With string and song, your festival awhile.
~ Henry Abbey
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It was a girl playing a harp, like in an orchestra. It was in this tree at our campsite. And since it was breezy weather that weekend, the girl's arms were almost always turning.
~ Paul Fleischman
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que façam harpas de meus nervos quando eu morrer.
~ Clarice Lispector
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I can see why a mortal would make a useful spy, beyond the ability to lie. A mortal can pass in to low places and high without much notice. Holding a harp, we're bards. In homespun, we're servants. In gowns, we're wives with squalling goblin children. I guess being beneath notice has advantages.
~ Holly Black
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In the secret island the Druid shall dwell once more, and the Bard, the slave of the harp, utter the speech of the Gods.
~ Unknown
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Fat heard in her rational tone the harp of nihilism, the twang of the void.
~ Philip K. Dick
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There's a false beast that takes the form of instinct and harps on the pointlessness of everything that happens.
~ David Levithan
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And when my spirit wants no stimulus or nourishment save music, I know it is to be sought in cemeteries: the musicians hide in the tombs; from grave to grave flute trills, harp chords answer one another.
~ Italo Calvino
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when the heartstrings, which contentment has silenced, like a harp laid by, yearn to be plucked and sounded again by some hand, however rough, even if it should break them;
~ Marcel Proust
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THE main thing to remember in autobiography, I have always thought, is not to let any damned modesty creep in to spoil the story. This adventure is mine, Albert Campion's, and I am fairly certain that I was pretty nearly brilliant in it in spite of the fact that I so nearly got myself and old Lugg killed that I hear a harp quintet whenever I consider it.
~ Margery Allingham
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Twilight ran along the harp's bronze strings and the bard's voice rose and dropped, not unlike the fells to the east, making a twisting, hypnotic rhythm of poised and perfect words.
~ Nicola Griffith
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The harp player had just fallen off the stage and cracked his head on an Italian tourist's pint. There was a big cheer, and Con the barman rang a bell on the counter. St Patrick's Day, and McCarthy's Bar was heaving.
~ Pete McCarthy
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The harp player had just fallen off the stage and cracked his head on an Italian tourist's pint. There was a big cheer, and Con the barman rang a bell on the counter.
~ Pete McCarthy
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The next day a spirit of distress sent from God came upon Saul, and he prophesied inside the house while David played the harp as usual. Now Saul was holding a spear,
~ 1 Samuel 18:10
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But as Saul was sitting in his house with his spear in his hand, a spirit of distress from the LORD came upon him. While David was playing the harp,
~ 1 Samuel 19:9
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Zechariah, Aziel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Unni, Eliab, Maaseiah, and Benaiah were to play the harps according to Alamoth.
~ 1 Chronicles 15:20
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So I will praise You with the harp for Your faithfulness, O my God; I will sing praise to You with the lyre, O Holy One of Israel.
~ Psalm 71:22
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Lift up a song, strike the tambourine, play the sweet-sounding harp and lyre.
~ Psalm 81:2
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with the ten-stringed harp and the melody of the lyre.
~ Psalm 92:3
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Sing praises to the LORD with the lyre, in melodious song with the harp.
~ Psalm 98:5
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I will sing to You a new song, O God; on a harp of ten strings I will make music to You—
~ Psalm 144:9
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Sing to the LORD with thanksgiving; make music on the harp to our God,
~ Psalm 147:7
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Let them praise His name with dancing, and make music to Him with tambourine and harp.
~ Psalm 149:3
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