Become Quote by Michael Leunig

Read from some humbler poet, Whose songs gushed from his heart, As showers from the clouds of summer, Or tears from the eyelids start.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It's interesting how young poets think of death while old fogies think of girls.

— Bohumil Hrabal

Music is the vapor of art. It is to poetry what reverie is to thought, what fluid is to solid, what the ocean of…

— Victor Hugo

How can the poem and the stink and the grating noise - the quality of light, the tone, the habit and the dream -…

— John Steinbeck

“I believe there is nothing that our better nature needs more absolutely than music, no other art of perfection possesses that strange power of…

— Pauline Decaradeuc Heyward

“In the depth of my soul there are songs unwilling to take the garb of words, songs living as seed in my heart. They…

— Kahlil Gibran

The music of an unhappy people, of the children of disappointment; they tell of death and suffering and unvoiced longing toward a truer world,…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

“ The Day is Done The day is done, and the darkness Falls from the wings of Night, As a feather is wafted downward…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

In nature, everything has a job. The job of the fog is to beautify further the existing beauties!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Are you facing a trial today? Perhaps fog is hiding the path of life from you and you don’t know which way to go.…

— Paul Chappell

“It seems impossible that I should be born to get so near to some things which touch the deepest strings of human conduct, the…

— Wallace E. Baker

When music sounds, gone is the earth I know, And all her lovelier things even lovelier grow; Her flowers in vision flame, her forest…

— Walter de La Mare