Nightingales Quotes - Page 6

• It is a flaw In happiness to see beyond our bourn, - It forces us in summer skies to mourn, It spoils the singing of the nightingale.

  John Keats

  Summer, Sky, Singing

  'To J. H. Reynolds, Esq.' (written 1818)

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• The chorus-ending from Aristophanes, raised every night from every ditch that drains into the Mediterranean, hoarse and primeval as the raven's croak, is one of the grandest tunes to walk by. Or on a night in May, one can walk through the too rare Italian forests for an hour on end and never be out of hearing of the nightingale's song.

  G. M. Trevelyan

  Song, Italian, Night

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• Someone spoke of your death, Heraclitus. It brought me Tears, and I remembered how often together We ran the sun down with talk . . . somewhere You've long been dust, my Halicarnassian friend. But your Nightingales live on. Though the Death world Claws at everything, it will not touch them.

  Callimachus

  Friendship, Dust, Long

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• Heine commenting on the music of Louis Hector Berlioz: He is an immense nightingale, a lark as great as an eagle. . . . The music causes me to dream of fabulous empires, filled with fabulous sins.

  Hector Berlioz

  Music, Dream, Eagles

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• Earl Nightingale never let a day go by that he didn`t learn something new and, in turn, pass it on to others. It was his consuming passion.

  Steve King

  Passion, Something New, Turns

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• Bismarck was a large persian cat owned by Florence Nightingale.

  Florence Nightingale

  Cat, Florence Nightingale, Bismarck

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• Thematically, we're both [with Kristin Hannah ] interested in women's experiences and women's stories, and until now, you've mostly dealt with how it feels to be a wife/mother/sister/name your poison in today's world. But this story [The Nightingale ] is told from the perspective of two sisters during the German occupation of France in WWII.

  Megan Chance

  Mother, Names, Two

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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