Bells Quote by Henry David Thoreau

For echo is the soul of the voice exciting itself in hollow places.

— Michael Ondaatje

The voice so sweet, the words so fair, As some soft chime had stroked the air; And though the sound had parted thence, Still…

— Ben Jonson

The sound must seem an echo to the sense.

— Alexander Pope

echo, the death of a sound that had nowhere to go but to come back.

— Janet Fitch

Some people, when they hear an echo, think they originated the sound.

— Ernest Hemingway

With mimicry, with praises, with echoes, or with answers, the poets have all but outsung the bell. The inarticulate bell has found too much…

— Alice Meynell

That tuneful nymph, the babbling Echo.

— Ovid

I listened for the echo, and I heard only praise —

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Echo is very important to me. I love the repetition of motifs, or the slight alteration of what's been said before. This is part…

— Teju Cole

When one bell is rung, by the sound of that one bell other bells will also vibrate. So it is with the dancing of…

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

When there is an original sound in the world, it makes a hundred echoes.

— Anonymous

The great bell of Beaulieu was ringing. Far away through the forest might be heard its musical clangor and swell.

— Arthur Conan Doyle