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The Song of
«It is natural for man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts... For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth, to know the worst, and to provide for it.»
Author: Patrick Henry
(Lawyer)
| About:
Hope,
Illusion,
Mankind
| Keywords:
Against A, anguish, anguished, anguishes, apt, beasts, cost, illusions, indulge, indulges, painful, provide, provide for, shut, siren, Sirens, song, The Song of, The Whole Truth, transforms
«And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints.»
«And Hezekiah commanded to offer the burnt offering upon the altar. And when the burnt offering began, the song of the LORD began also with the trumpets, and with the instruments ordained by David king of Israel.»
«History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.»
Author: Joseph Conrad
| Keywords:
Call of, history of art, repeats, reproduced, reproduces, reproducing, The Song of, utterly
«Everyone wants to understand painting. Why is there no attempt to understand the song of the birds?»
Author: Pablo Picasso
(Artist, Painter)
| About:
Art,
Painting
| Keywords:
attempt, birds, painting, song, Song of the, The Birds, The Song of
«Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they cannot write; nevertheless they find countless mysterious ways of corresponding, by sending each other the song of»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Absence,
Relationships
| Keywords:
cheat, corresponding, countless, fancies, nevertheless, prevented, sending, separated, Separate reality, The Song of
«The city sleeps and the country sleeps, the living sleep for their time, the dead sleep for their time, the old husband sleeps by his wife and the young husband sleeps by his wife; and these tend inward to me, and I tend outward to them, and such as it is to be of these more or less I am, and of these one and all I weave the song of myself.»
