John Clare Quotes, Summer Quotes, Song Quotes

Loud is the summer's busy song The smallest breeze can find a tongue, While insects of each tiny size Grow teasing with their melodies, Till noon burns with its blistering breath Around, and day lies still as death.

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To the birds you gave songs, the birds gave you songs in return. You gave me only a voice, yet asked for more, thus I sing.

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Tags : Rabindranath Tagore Quotes , Song Quotes , Voice Quotes

Gaily bedight, A gallant knight, In sunshine and in shadow, Had journeyed long, Singing a song, In search of Eldorado. But he grew old— This knight so bold— And o’er his heart a shadow— Fell as he found No spot of ground That looked like Eldorado. And, as his strength Failed him at length, He met a pilgrim shadow— ‘Shadow,’ said he, ‘Where can it be— This land of Eldorado?’ ‘Over the Mountains Of the Moon, Down the Valley of the Shadow, Ride, boldly ride,’ The shade replied,— ‘If you seek for Eldorado!

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Tags : Edgar Allan Poe Quotes , Strength Quotes , Song Quotes

The masters painted for joy, and knew not that virtue had gone out of them. They could not paint the like in cold blood. The masters of English lyric wrote their songs so. It was a fine efflorescence of fine powers.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Song Quotes , Blood Quotes

The Pilgrim of Eternity, whose fame Over his living head like heaven is bent, An early but enduring monument, Came, veiling all the lightnings of his song In sorrow.

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Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Life Quotes , Song Quotes

There are a lot of songs that would ostensibly be a good candidate for parody, yet I can't think of a clever enough idea.

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Tags : Al Yankovic Quotes , Song Quotes , Clever Quotes

I was in a Broadway musical called Big Time Buck Wright.The play didn't make it but I was a success. It lasted six days but I sung four songs and there were critics, seriously, in New York who said that my part was perfect. So I can beat Joe Frazier singing.

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Tags : Muhammad Ali Quotes , Song Quotes , New York Quotes

In the songs I can still be really really direct but in interviews when I'm explaining my songs I shouldn't be so direct about who they're about.

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Tags : Adele Quotes , Song Quotes , Interviews Quotes

I am not much of a hand at love songs, you see I mingle metaphysics with even this, but perhaps in this age of Philosophy that may be excused.

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Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Song Quotes , Philosophy Quotes

Most of the songs are, in a roundabout way, actually addressed to myself, there's a certain aspect of the songs that's very confessional, very unadulterated...It was a very unfettered, spiritual experience.

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Tags : Alanis Morissette Quotes , Spiritual Quotes , Song Quotes

In my opinion, I think sarcasm and humor in a song, without turning it into a novelty song, is really charming.

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We've always been trying to climb this ladder that leans so hard on our own idea of what our big songs are. We realized recently that we're not a band with big songs.

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Tags : Aaron Dessner Quotes , Song Quotes

I quite like childlike songs, which sometimes cross over.

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Tags : Alan Price Quotes , Song Quotes , Sometimes Quotes

That music in itself, whose sounds are song, The poetry of speech.

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Song Quotes , Singing Quotes

Short swallow-flights of song, that dip Their wings in tears, and skim away.

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Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Song Quotes , Wings Quotes

Sing a song of seasons; something bright in all, flowers in the summer, fires in the fall.

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Tags : Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes , Summer Quotes , Song Quotes

I started writting songs when I was really little because there were things I could say through songs that I couldn't verbalize any other way. Writting was something I had to do.

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Tags : Alanis Morissette Quotes , Song Quotes , Littles Quotes

Poetry is not the opinion stated. It is a song that appears instead of a bloody wound or a smiling mouth.

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Tags : Khalil Gibran Quotes , Song Quotes , Inspiring Love Quotes

There's just enough drinking and cheating songs around without me adding to them. Unless you've got something better than "Misery and Gin" by Merle Haggard, you're beating a dead horse.

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Tags : Aaron Watson Quotes , Cheating Quotes , Song Quotes

I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman's fickleness. But perhaps you will say, these were all written by men." "Perhaps I shall. Yes, yes, if you please, no reference to examples in books. Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.

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Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , Song Quotes , Book Quotes