“Not only the qualitative world bursts forth in song, but so does the quantitative.”
Joseph B. Soloveitchik (1903–1993) American theologian
Source: Halakhic Man (1983), p. 84
Et sonnant d’avance sa victoire,
Mon chant jaillit si net, si fier, si peremptoire
Que l’horizon, saisi d'un rose tremblement,
M’obéit.
Act II, Sc. 3
Chantecler (1910)
“Not only the qualitative world bursts forth in song, but so does the quantitative.”
Joseph B. Soloveitchik (1903–1993) American theologian
Source: Halakhic Man (1983), p. 84
Luís de Camões (1524–1580) Portuguese poet
Eu cantarei de amor tão docemente,
Por uns termos em si tão concertados,
Que dois mil acidentes namorados
Faça sentir ao peito que não sente.
Selected Sonnets: A Bilingual Edition (2008), ed. William Baer, p. 128
Lyric poetry, Sonnets, Eu cantarei de amor tão docemente
Jean Sibelius (1865–1957) Finnish composer of the late Romantic period
To Jussi Jalas, August 27, 1943. http://www.sibelius.fi/english/omin_sanoin/ominsanoin_13.htm
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi (1971–2019) leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
As quoted in "Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi addresses Muslims in Mosul", The Telegraph (5 July 2014)
2014
Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iraq/10948480/Islamic-State-leader-Abu-Bakr-al-Baghdadi-addresses-Muslims-in-Mosul.html
Hariprasad Chaurasia (1938) Indian bansuri player
Music is a Prayer:An interview with Hariprasad Chaurasia by Ian Gottstein
“So I was smacked up on the Prime Minister's jet – big deal.”
Will Self (1961) English writer and journalist
Interviewed by The Independent on Sunday, April 1997. http://web.archive.org/web/19970429201840/http://www.bbc.co.uk/election97/news/0419/brief.htm
Hannah Flagg Gould (1788–1865) American writer
Cited by Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
The Frost
