"The whispers of shared ecstasy are choral." — George Steiner
"The whispers of shared ecstasy are choral."
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George Steiner
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76 Quotes by George Steiner
George Steiner has 76 quotes on this site.
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It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the…
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The new sound-sphere is global. It ripples at great speed across languages, ideologies, frontiers and races. The economics of this…
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To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.
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The most important tribute any human being can pay to a poem or a piece of prose he or she…
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The capacity for imaginative reflex, for moral risk in any human being is not limitless; on the contrary, it can…
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If, in the Judaic perception, the language of the Adamic was that of love, the grammars of fallen man are…
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Literature and the arts are also criticism in a more particular and practical sense. They embody an expository reflection on,…
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To starve a child of the spell of the story, of the canter of the poem, oral or written, is…
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The age of the book is almost gone.
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The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion.
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Books are in no hurry. An act of creation is in no hurry; it reads us, it privileges us infinitely.
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To be a European is to try to negotiate morally, intellectually and existentially the opposing statements and praxis of the…
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More Choral Quotes
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one of 13 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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In the earliest cultures any tie between the dancers is slight. In a higher level the choral dancers almost always…
— Curt Sachs
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The oldest form of the Choral Dance is the circle. Even the chimpanzees dance in a circle, and people of…
— Curt Sachs
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A choral dance: an attempt to impose upon a chance gathering of a few dozen guests a communal feeling.
— Curt Sachs
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When I had my first experiences of choral singing, the dissonance of those close harmonies was so exquisite that I…
— Eric Whitacre
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The first choral music I remember hearing was Handel's 'Messiah' when the Mormon Tabernacle Choir broadcast it over the radio.
— Dave Brubeck
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That was one of the big problems when I was at Harvard studying music. We had to write choral pieces…
— Elliott Carter
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I'm not a great deductive thinker, but I will admit to having competence in a very wide range of things…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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I have such happy memories of performing in a choir and I don't think I'd have got where I am…
— Katherine Jenkins
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I never listen to music when I am writing. It would be impossible. I listen to Bach in the mornings,…
— Colm Toibin
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For at the hour of death you became a celebrated film star, it is a moment of glory for everyone,…
— Clarice Lispector
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I sang a lot in college - I was in a choral group in college. But, then, when I moved…
— Unknown Author
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When the truth is that there would be no great Western music, and certainly no decent choral repertoire, without the…
— Richard Morris
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