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"...in song the words tend to lose their significance, do often lose it, while at the other extreme, in current prose it is the musical value that tends to disappear - so that verse stands symmetrically, as it were, between song, on the one hand, and prose on the other - and is thus admirably and delicately balanced between the sensual and the intellectual power of language." »Paul Valery
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"Those who wish to sing always find a song." »Swedish Proverb
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"Silence is more musical than any song." »Christina G. Rossetti
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"In summer, the song sings itself." »William Carlos Williams
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"Whose bread I eat his song I sing." »German proverb
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"What will a child learn sooner than a song?" »Alexander Pope
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"I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!" »Jerry Van Amerongen, Ballard Street, 08-18-05
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"In the depth of my soul there is a wordless song." »Kahlil Gibran
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"A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song." »Chinese Proverb
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"I could be whatever I wanted to be if I trusted that music, that song, that vibration of God that was inside of ME." »Shirley MacLaine
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"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and sings it back to you when you have forgotten how it goes." »Unknown
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"When asked about his favorite song, I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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"As a song-writer, I write from the heart, soul and mind, not from lies." »Alishia May
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"I like a beautiful song that tells you terrible things. We all like bad news out of a pretty mouth." »Tom Waits, Blood Money interviews
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"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world." »J. R. R. Tolkien
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"Sooner of later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"My life has been one great big joke A dance that's walked A song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke When I think about myself." »Maya Angelou
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"One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words." »Johann von Goethe
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"One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words." »Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if possible, speak a few reasonable words." »Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"One ought every day at least to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words." »Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Unknown
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"Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,
A medley of extemporanea;
And love is thing that can never go wrong;
And I am Marie of Romania." »Dorothy Parker
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"Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea And love is a thing that can never go wrong And I am Marie of Roumania." »Dorothy Parker
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"Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,
A medley of extemporanea;
And love is a thing that can never go wrong;
And I am Marie of Romania." »Dorothy Parker, Not So Deep as a Well (1937), "Comment"
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"The true miracle lies in our eagerness to allow, appreciate, and honor the uniqueness, and freedom of each sentient being to sing the song of their heart." »Amit Ray
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"You will certainly not be able to take the lead in all things yourself, for to one man a god has given deeds of war, and to another the dance, to another lyre and song, and in another wide-sounding Zeus puts a good mind." »Homer
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"When the mind is possessed of reality, it feels tranquil and joyous even without music or song, and it produces a pure fragrance even without incense or tea." »Hung Tzu-ch'eng
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"Think, In mounting higher, The angels would press on us, and aspire To drop some golden orb of perfect song Into our deep, dear silence." »Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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"Next to theology I give to music the highest place and honor. And we see how David and all the saints have wrought their godly thoughts into verse, rhyme, and song." »Luther
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"It is natural for a man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut out eyes against a painful truth and listen to the song of that siren, till she transforms into beasts." »Patrick Henry
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