I was still lost in Orpheus’s song when I sensed that I…

“Later on, Orpheus stood beside the hearth fire in the center of the hall and sang about the day’s adventure. On his lips, the…

— Esther M. Friesner

“Orpheus literally had his hands full, holding on to her while she struggled to break away from him and plunge into the water, time…

— Esther M. Friesner

When your father directed your mother in 'Orpheus Descending,' the kid's going to be a theater nerd.

— Logan Marshall-Green

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