When I am dead, my dearest, Sing no sad songs for me; Plant thou no roses at my head, Nor shady cypress… — Christina Rossetti Copy Share Image
Music exists when rhythmic, melodic or harmonic order is deliberately created, and consciously listened to, and it is only language-using, self-conscious creatures… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
You can be a flower in somebody's garden or a pig or the sunshine or a crow or a nightingale! Be something… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
He stood beside a cottage lone And listened to a lute, One summer's eve, when the breeze was gone, And the nightingale… — Thomas Kibble Hervey Copy Share Image
In doing the research, I found myself consumed by a single, overwhelming question, as relevant today as it was seventy years ago:… — Megan Chance Copy Share Image
“I have a million nightingales on the branches of my heart singing freedom.” — Susan Straight Copy Share Image
Adieu! adieu! thy plaintive anthem fades Past the near meadows, over the still stream, Up the hill-side; and now 'tis buried deep… — John Keats Copy Share Image
Conflict resolution,' said Nightingale. 'Is this what they teach at Hendon these days?' 'Yes, sir,' I said. 'But don't worry, they also… — Ben Aaronovitch Copy Share Image
It is a flaw In happiness to see beyond our bourn, - It forces us in summer skies to mourn, It spoils… — John Keats Copy Share Image
Heine commenting on the music of Louis Hector Berlioz: He is an immense nightingale, a lark as great as an eagle. .… — Hector Berlioz Copy Share Image
When I was 12 years old, I read 'Nancy Drew' mysteries and biographies of Madame Curie and Florence Nightingale and books about… — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
I go into my library, and all history unrolls before me. I breathe the morning air of the world while the scent… — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
Far away beyond the pine-woods,' he answered, in a low dreamy voice, 'there is a little garden. There the grass grows long… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
[ The Nightingale ]ended up being a huge undertaking - a daunting amount of research on a subject that many people know… — Megan Chance Copy Share Image
Brute force crushes many plants. Yet the plants rise again. The Pyramids will not last a moment compared with the daisy. And… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The wren and the nightingale sound nothing alike, but think how dull the world would be without the songs of both birds.-Miss… — Kirby Larson Copy Share Image
I am the dust in the sunlight, I am the ball of the sun . . . I am the mist of… — Rumi Copy Share Image
If I was a nightingale I would sing like a nightingale; if a swan, like a swan. But since I am a… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Formerly I believed books were made like this: a poet came, lightly opened his lips, and the inspired fool burst into song… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And now that thou art lying, my dear old Carian guest, A handful of grey ashes, long, long ago at rest, Still… — Callimachus Copy Share Image
A Locanian having plucked all the feathers off from a nightingale and seeing what a little body it had, "surely," quoth he,… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Seek for a fresh invoice of grace. Unbelief can scoff or growl; faith is the nightingale that sings in the darkest hour.… — Theodore L. Cuyler Copy Share Image