Lyre Quotes

28 quotes by 22 authors

My pen is my harp and my lyre; my library is my garden and my orchard. — Judah Halevi
All things are in flux; the flux is subject to a unifying measure or rational principle. This principle (logos, the hidden harmony behind all change)… — Heraclitus
Who gave you the ability to contemplate the beauty of the skies, the course of the sun, the round moon, the millions of stars, the… — Gregory of Nazianzus
What do you think an artist is An imbecile who has only his eyes if he is a painter, or his ears if he is… — Pablo Picasso
Hands that the rod of empire might have sway'd, Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre. — Thomas Gray
Jesus and Paul were serious dudes. They had teeth missing. Jesus was a carpenter, Paul was in prison. These guys didnâ€™t eat tofu dogs and… — Mark Driscoll
In the Bible (Hebrews, 6:19), hope is â€˜an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil.â€™ Here… — George Frederic Watts
The Merchant, to Secure His Treasure The merchant, to secure his treasure, Conveys it in a borrowed name: Euphelia serves to grace my measure, But… — Edgar Allan Poe
Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords-philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather. — Anna Brownell Jameson
So to the lyre of Orpheus they struck with their oars, The furious water of the sea, and the surge broke into waves. Here and… — Barry S. Strauss
The good man is the only excellent musician, because he gives forth a perfect harmony not with a lyre or other instrument but with the… — Plato
All sound heard at the greatest possible distance produces one and the same effect, a vibration of the universal lyre, just as the intervening atmosphere… — Henry David Thoreau
No one seeing a beautifully elaborated lyre with its harmonious, orderly arrangement, and hearing the lyre's music will fail to form a notion of its… — Gregory of Nazianzus
The true musician is attuned to a fairer harmony than that of the lyre... for he truly has in his own life a harmony of… — Plato
The nightingale has a lyre of gold, The lark's is a clarion call, And the blackbird plays but a boxwood flute, But I love him… — William Ernest Henley
We shall march prospering,-not thro' his presence; Songs may inspirit us,-not from his lyre; Deeds will be done,-while he boasts his quiescence, Still bidding crouch… — Robert Browning
It is idle to play the lyre for an ass. — St. Jerome
Without taste genius is only a sublime kind of folly. That sure touch which the lyre gives back the right note and nothing more, is… — Bill Vaughan
When I have neither pleasure nor pain and have been breathing for a while the lukewarm insipid air of these so-called good and tolerable days,… — Hermann Hesse
But you who walk facing the sun, what images drawn on the earth can hold you? You who travel with the wind, what weathervane shall… — Khalil Gibran

Who Wrote These Lyre Quotes

22 authors contributed a total of 28 Lyre Quotes as follows: