It was generally believed, said Theophilus, that Orpheus…

“Time slipped and slid around him, unanchored by any fact that could be verified. Perhaps it did not matter. 'Where does our story take…

— Ann Wroe

“From outside came a sudden and loud music of birds celebrating their existence.”

— Stephen King

“Tuning must come first. Each recital begins with a careful tightening of the pegs on the cross-bar, twisting them in their socket of red…

— Ann Wroe

But would you sing, and rival Orpheus' strain. The wond'ring forests soon should dance again; The moving mountains hear the powerful call. And headlong…

— Alexander Pope

“Fire he sang, that trees fear, and I, a tree, rejoiced in its flames. New buds broke forth from me though it was full…

— Denise Levertov

Human intelligence discovered a way of perpetuating itself, one not only more durable and more resistant than architecture, but also simpler and easier. Architecture…

— Victor Hugo

Mortimer's face twisted when the Piper pressed his knife against his ribs. Oh yes, he's obviously made the wrong enemies in this story, thought…

— Cornelia Funke

Husband, we talked about this," Persephone chided. "You can't go around incinerating every hero. Besides, he's brave. I like that." Hades rolled his eyes.…

— Rick Riordan

And I think that it is certainly possible that the objective universe can be affected by the poet. I mean, you recall Orpheus made…

— Jack Spicer

“Mandelstam was, one is tempted to say, a modern Orpheus: sent to hell, he never returned, while his widow dodged across one-sixth of the…

— Joseph Brodsky

“. . . Orpheus struck dumb with hindsight.”

— A. E. Stallings

“Orpheus chose to be the leader of mankind. Ah, not even Orpheus had attained such a goal, not even his immortal greatness had justified…

— Hermann Broch

“... and in the homosexual phase which would follow Eurydice's death ... Orpheus sings no more, he writes.”

— Jacques Derrida

How infinitely happier and more grateful is the whole personality or spirit when it finds something nourishing in art or writing or thinking, than…

— Kenny Smith

“Collect yourself: to smother what you feel, recall to order, summon in one place; making, like Orpheus, a system against loss.”

— Ruth Padel