Best Nightingales Quotes

75 Nightingales quotes by 57 unique authors

Disease an never be conquered, can never be quelled by emotion's willful screaming or faith's symbolic prayer. It can only be conquered by the energy… — Sean O'Casey
I see that you believe in love such as the poets and romancers have represented... The poets represent love as the sculptors design beauty, as… — Alfred de Musset
The great pulsation of nature beats too in my breast, and when I carol aloud, I am answered by a thousand-fold echo. I hear a… — Heinrich Heine
Everything perfect in its kind has to transcend its own kind, it must become something different and incomparable. In some notes the nightingale is still… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song; and the sun for… — Alfred North Whitehead
It is quiet here and restful and the air is delicious. There are gardens everywhere and police spies lie in the bushes. There are nightingales… — Maxim Gorky
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
The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark When neither is attended; and I think The nightingale, if she should sing by day When… — William Shakespeare
Soft as Memnon's harp at morning, To the inward ear devout, Touched by light, with heavenly warning Your transporting chords ring out. Every leaf in… — John Keble
Now came still evening on; and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad: Silence accompanied; for beast and bird, They to they… — John Milton
Sweet bird that shunn'st the nose of folly, Most musical, most melancholy! Thee, chauntress, oft, the woods among, I woo, to hear thy even-song. — John Milton
O nightingale, that on yon bloomy spray Warblest at eve, when all the woods are still; Thou with fresh hope the lover's heart dost fill… — John Milton
The nightingale appear'd the first, And as her melody she sang, The apple into blossom burst, To life the grass and violets sprang. — Heinrich Heine
Adieu! adieu! thy plaintive anthem fades Past the near meadows, over the still stream, Up the hill-side; and now 'tis buried deep In the next… — John Keats
Thou wast not born for death, immortal bird! No hungry generations tread thee down; The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient… — John Keats
Where the nightingale doth sing Not a senseless, tranced thing, But divine melodious truth. — John Keats
For as nightingales do upon glow-worms feed, So poets live upon the living light. — Philip James Bailey
A Locanian having plucked all the feathers off from a nightingale and seeing what a little body it had, "surely," quoth he, "thou art all… — Plutarch
Just as a musician loves music and not nightingales, and a poet loves poetry and not sunsets, a painter is not primarily a person who… — Andre Malraux
I often compare Margaret Thatcher with Florence Nightingale. She stalks through the wards of our hospitals as a lady with a lamp. Unfortunately, it's a… — Denis Healey
When I was 12 years old, I read 'Nancy Drew' mysteries and biographies of Madame Curie and Florence Nightingale and books about girls who love… — Joyce Maynard
A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea… — Boris Pasternak
His voice was cloves and nightingales, it took us to spice markets in the Celebs, we drifted with him on a houseboat beyond the Coral… — Janet Fitch
When I am dead, my dearest, Sing no sad songs for me; Plant thou no roses at my head, Nor shady cypress tree: Be the… — Christina Rossetti

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