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«How cruelly sweet are the echoes that start, When memory plays an old tune on the heart»

Author: Eliza Cook | Keywords: cruelly, echoed, echoes, echoing, memory, plays, sweet, tune, tuned, tune in, tuning

«Nothing is so beautiful as spring -- when weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush's eggs look little low heavens, and thrush through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring the ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing.»

Author: Gerard Manley Hopkins (Poet, Priest) | Keywords: echoing, Lightning Strikes, lush, rinse, rinsed, thrush, timber, weeds, wring

«Music is the harmonious voice of creation; an echo of the invisible world.»

Author: Giuseppe Mazzini (Founder) | About: Music | Keywords: Creation, echo, echoed, echoing, harmonious, invisible, voice

«The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.»

Author: John Greenleaf Whittier (Writer) | About: Books | Keywords: book, Books not, contains, dwells, echoed, echoes, echoing, just as, suggesting, suggests, tones, tone up

«Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.»

Author: Carl Sandburg (Historian, Novelist, Poet) | About: Poetry | Keywords: asking, dance, echo, echoed, echoing, poetry, shadow

«Kind words are short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless»

Author: Mother Teresa of Calcutta (Founder, Missionary) | Keywords: come short, easy, echoed, echoes, echoing, endless, for short, kind, short, shorts, short I, Short words, speak, their, truly, words

«The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.»

Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes (Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer) | Keywords: a great deal, cannon, cannons, deal, echo, echoed, echoing, great deal, lasts, longer, loud, sound, The Sound

«The breezy call of incense-breathing Morn,/ The swallow twittering from the straw-built shed, / The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn, / No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed.»