Berlioz Quote by Hector Berlioz

The music soars within the little lark, And the lark soars.

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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…

— William Ernest Henley

The eagle suffers little birds to sing, And is not careful what they mean thereby, Knowing that with the shadow of his wings He…

— William Shakespeare

“and suddenly she began to sing. Keen, heart-piercing was her song as the song of the lark that rises from the gates of night…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

Everything perfect in its kind has to transcend its own kind, it must become something different and incomparable. In some notes the nightingale is…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“At length, one lovely morning, when the green corn lay soaking in the yellow sunlight, and the sky rose above the earth deep and…

— George MacDonald

Like the lark that soars in the air, first singing, then silent, content with the last sweetness that satiates it, such seemed to me…

— Dante Alighieri

I heard a bird so sing, Whose music, to my thinking, pleased the king.

— William Shakespeare

“Besides this I place another equally obvious confirmation of my view that opera is based on the same principles as our Alexandrian culture. Opera…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“It is not difficult to imagine that music, like Dante’s Beatrice, is one of the ways in which grace operates through beauty—that music, like…

— Peter Kalkavage

Sweet bird, that shun the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy!

— John Milton

“There’s a beauty in birds on the wing, That stirs the heart and makes earthbound creatures Long for flight, but the larks above the…

— Charles Todd