Animals Quote by Ann Wroe

“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