You are not an artist,an artist creates. You do not write your own songs. End of debate.

Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song; and the sun for its radiance. The poets are entirely mistaken. They should address their lyrics to themselves and should turn them into odes of self congratulation on the excellence of the human mind.

When I write love songs, people think they're really soppy -- but I see love as a consolation for the boredom of life.

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.

What will a child learn sooner than a song?

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.

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.

Use what talents you have; the woods would have little music if no birds sang their song except those who sang best.

In summer, the song sings itself.

A book is a story for the mind. A song is a story for the soul.

There is not a flower or bird in sight, only a small screen on which lines are moving, while the child sits almost motionless, pushing at the keyboard with one finger. As a learning environment, it may be mentally rich, but it is perceptually extremely impoverished. No smells or tastes, no wind or bird song (unless the computer is programmed to produce electronic tweets), no connection with soil, water, sunlight, warmth, the actual learning environment is almost autistic in quality, impoverished sensually, emotionally, and socially.

I am the rose of Sharon, and the lily of the valleys. THE BELOVED.

I came from a disadvantaged home. They were Republicans.

In the depth of my soul there is a wordless song.

The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense his life. . . . The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds -- how many human aspirations are realised in their free, holiday-lives -- and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song!

There I lay staring upward, while the stars wheeled over... Faint to my ears came the gathered rumour of all lands: the springing and the dying, the song and the weeping, and the slow everlasting groan of overburdened stone.

Those who wish to sing always find a song.

When asked about his favorite song, I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.

I like a beautiful song that tells you terrible things. We all like bad news out of a pretty mouth.

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.

Silence is more musical than any song.

Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly, as you teach and admonish one another in all wisdom, and as you sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs with thankfulness in your hearts to God.

If you were in a room with Kadaffi, Saddam Hussien, and John Sununu, and you only had two bullets, what would you do. Shoot John Sununu twice.

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

If a man knows the law, find out, though he live in a pine shanty, and resort to him. And if a man can pipe or sing, so as to wrap the imprisoned soul in an elysium; or can paint a landscape, and convey into souls and ochres all the enchantments of Spring or Autumn; or can liberate and intoxicate all people who hear him with delicious songs and verses; it is certain that the secret cannot be kept; the first witness tells it to a second, and men go by fives and tens and fifties to his doors.

A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and sings it back to you when you have forgotten how it goes.

Our sweetest songs are those that tell the saddest thoughts.

All truths, not merely ideas, but truthful faces, truthful pictures or songs, are highly beautiful.

I could be whatever I wanted to be if I trusted that music, that song, that vibration of God that was inside of ME.

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.

...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.

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.

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.

Whose bread I eat his song I sing.

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.

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.

Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards.

A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!