Virginia Woolf Quotes, Song Quotes, Silly Quotes

To evade such temptations is the first duty of the poet. For as the ear is the antechamber to the soul, poetry can adulterate and destroy more surely then lust or gunpowder. The poet's, then, is the highest office of all. His words reach where others fall short. A silly song of Shakespeare's has done more for the poor and the wicked than all the preachers and philanthropists in the world.

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Everybody knows we're big liberals and I was a very outspoken Hillary Clinton supporter, and I still am. It's impossible for us to separate the songs we're writing from what's going on in the world.

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Tags : Aaron Dessner Quotes , Song Quotes , Writing Quotes

I doubt I'll be singing forever, because at some point people aren't going to want to hear my music, and I hope that I'll still get the opportunity to write songs.

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Tags : Adele Quotes , Song Quotes , Writing Quotes

If you love a person, you say to that person, "Look, I love you, whatever that may be. I've seen quite a bit of it and I know there's lots that I haven't seen, but still it's you and I want you to be what you want to be. And I won't be happy if I've got you in a cage. You'd be a bird without song."

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Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Love Quotes , Song Quotes

I don't think you ever write a song with any intention except the song's about such and such per say ... we've never written a song and thought 'oh it'd be great if in this part this happened in the audience'.

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The more vulnerable and the more confused the song is, the equal and opposite effect is how I feel after having written it.

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Tags : Alanis Morissette Quotes , Song Quotes , Confused 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

Coming, as I do, from mountain folk on one side and sea followers on the other, there are few old songs of the hills or the sea with which I am not familiar.

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Tags : Robert E. Howard Quotes , Song Quotes , Sea Quotes

Whoever says that all music is prohibited, let him also claim that the songs of birds are prohibited.

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Tags : Al-Ghazali Quotes , Song Quotes , Bird Quotes

Hawai'i is not truly the idyllic paradise of popular songs--islands of love and tranquility, where nothing bad ever happens. It was and is a place where people work and struggle, live and die, as they do the world over.

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Tags : Alan Brennert Quotes , Song Quotes , Struggle Quotes

You think it horrible that lust and rage Should dance attention upon my old age; They were not such a plague when I was young; What else have I to spur me into song?

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Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Song Quotes , Thinking Quotes

Sooner or later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song.

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

Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.

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Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Song Quotes , Snakes Quotes

Even a man's exact imitation of the song of the nightingale displeases us when we discover that it is a mimicry, and not the nightingale.

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Tags : Immanuel Kant Quotes , Song Quotes , Men Quotes

And I made a rural pen, And I stained the water clear, And I wrote my happy songs Every Child may joy to hear.

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Tags : William Blake Quotes , Song Quotes , Children Quotes

I'm delighted about the track's success in the sports world, but the frustrating thing is, I don't think I got rich on it. The labels and publishers did very cheap deals on our songs.

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Tags : Alan Parsons Quotes , Sports Quotes , Song Quotes

If you love a person, you say to that person, "Look, I love you, whatever that may be. I've seen quite a bit of it and I know there's lots that I haven't seen, but still it's you and I want you to be what you want to be. And I won't be happy if I've got you in a cage. You'd be a bird without song."

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Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Love 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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Tags : John Clare Quotes , Summer Quotes , Song Quotes

On the long dusty ribbon of the long city street, The pageant of life is passing me on multitudinous feet, With a word here of the hills, and a song there of the sea And-the great movement changes-the pageant passes me.

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Tags : John Masefield Quotes , Life Quotes , Song Quotes

The [book of the bible] Song Of Songs is an amazing erotic love poem that the church has tried very hard not to notice. It is really beautiful, and musical in its poetry.

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Tags : Alan Green Quotes , Beautiful Quotes , Song Quotes