“If wishes solved problems, the world would be a very different place.” — Jaye Wells Copy Share Image
Before all, be real. Only the truth gives to the word the Orpheus' Lyre power. — Pythagoras Copy Share Image
“Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing Such notes as warbled to the string, Drew Iron tears down Pluto’s cheek, And made… — John Milton Copy Share Image
So Orpheus did for his owne bride, So I unto my selfe alone will sing, The woods shall to me answer and… — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
“I wanted a guy like Orpheus. Orpheus has gone through Tartarus to rescue his wife—that was love. Hades probably didn't even know… — Kaitlin Bevis Copy Share Image
“... and in the homosexual phase which would follow Eurydice's death ... Orpheus sings no more, he writes.” — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
“Collect yourself: to smother what you feel, recall to order, summon in one place; making, like Orpheus, a system against loss.” — Ruth Padel Copy Share Image
Miserable Orpheus who, turning to lose his Eurydice, beholds her for the first time as well as the last. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
In sweet music is such art, Killing care and grief of heart Fall asleep, or hearing die. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Descending into memory like Orpheus to bring Aura out alive for a moment, that's the desparate purpose of all these futile little… — Fransisco Gold an Copy Share Image
Human intelligence discovered a way of perpetuating itself, one not only more durable and more resistant than architecture, but also simpler and… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Mortimer!" Orpheus produced a derisive smile, although with some difficulty. "Is your head buried so deep in your wine jug that you… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes.… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“Orpheus. Had the name he had taken ever suited him better? But he would be wilier than the singer whose name he… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
But would you sing, and rival Orpheus' strain. The wond'ring forests soon should dance again; The moving mountains hear the powerful call.… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Happy indeed the poet of whom, like Orpheus, nothing is known but an immortal name! Happy next, perhaps, the poet of whom,… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
“Divine blood flows differently in each god-born child. Orpheus’ voice made the trees weep, Heracles could kill a man by clapping him… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
“Orpheus never liked words. He had his music. He would get a funny look on his face and I would say what… — Sarah Ruhl Copy Share Image
“By the sweet power of music: therefore the poet did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones and floods; since nought so stockish,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Had we had all the money in the world to spend and we were doing another studio movie, we probably would have… — David Twohy Copy Share Image
How infinitely happier and more grateful is the whole personality or spirit when it finds something nourishing in art or writing or… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
I lately met with an old volume from a London bookshop, containing the Greek Minor Poets, and it was a pleasure to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Ghosts of melodious prophesyings rave Round every spot where trod Apollo's foot; Bronze clarions awake, and faintly bruit, Where long ago a… — John Keats Copy Share Image
“She was like a reprieve; like Eurydice, gifted back to Orpheus from the darkness for a brief miraculous moment. I wanted, so… — Tana French Copy Share Image
And I think that it is certainly possible that the objective universe can be affected by the poet. I mean, you recall… — Jack Spicer Copy Share Image
“Orpheus never liked words. He had his music. He would get a funny look on his face and I would say what… — sarah ruhl Copy Share Image
“Orpheus chose to be the leader of mankind. Ah, not even Orpheus had attained such a goal, not even his immortal greatness… — Hermann Broch Copy Share Image
Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing Such notes as, warbled to the string, Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek. — John Milton Copy Share Image
When your father directed your mother in 'Orpheus Descending,' the kid's going to be a theater nerd. — Logan Marshall-Green Copy Share Image
“Mandelstam was, one is tempted to say, a modern Orpheus: sent to hell, he never returned, while his widow dodged across one-sixth… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Husband, we talked about this," Persephone chided. "You can't go around incinerating every hero. Besides, he's brave. I like that." Hades rolled… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
So to the lyre of Orpheus they struck with their oars, The furious water of the sea, and the surge broke into… — Barry S. Strauss Copy Share Image
“Fire he sang, that trees fear, and I, a tree, rejoiced in its flames. New buds broke forth from me though it… — Denise Levertov Copy Share Image
A glorious place, a glorious age, I tell you! A very Neon renaissance - And the myths that actually touched you at… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
Yet the story of Orpheus, it occurs to me, is not just about the desire of the living to resuscitate the dead… — Meghan O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Mortimer's face twisted when the Piper pressed his knife against his ribs. Oh yes, he's obviously made the wrong enemies in this… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
“Orpheus 2 He has been trying to sing Love into existence again And he has failed.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Music can noble hints impart, Engender fury, kindle love, With unsuspected eloquence can move, And manage all the man with secret art. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Not only was Thebes built by the music of an Orpheus; but without the music of some inspired Orpheus was no city… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
