Animated Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“so well is the harp of human feeling strung, that nothing but a crash that breaks every string can wholly mar its harmony;”

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

“Harping should be limited to musical instruments. - Charmainism”

— Charmaine Smith Ladd

“Unless you're ready to mount a cloud 'n' learn harp music, you better let go of me!”

— Charlotte McPherren

Every element has a sound, an original sound from the order of God; all those sounds unite like the harmony from harps and zithers.

— Hildegard of Bingen

There's something fundamental to the harp that has retained its appeal my whole life. It's an instrument I am just in love with.

— Joanna Newsom

While a man is stringing a harp, he tries the strings, not for music, but for construction. When it is finished it shall be…

— Henry Ward Beecher

No man can force the harp of his own individuality into the people's heart; but every man may play upon the chords of the…

— Lajos Kossuth

“We all have our harps to play. And it's up to you now to know with which ear you'll listen.”

— Ray Bradbury

My voice in combination with the harp - which, by the way, I use because I've played it my entire life, not to make…

— Joanna Newsom

Religious ideas have the fate of melodies, which, once set afloat in the world, are taken up by all sorts of instruments, some of…

— George Eliot

Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.

— Novalis

I had known that people would probably have strange reactions to my voice, because I have kind of an unwieldy, difficult voice, but I…

— Joanna Newsom