“From a magician's midnight sleeve
the radio-singers
distribute all their love-songs
over the dew-wet lawns.”
Poem: Late Air
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Elizabeth Bishop17
American poet 1911–1979Related quotes
“Brushing with hasty steps the dews away,
To meet the sun upon the upland lawn.”
Thomas Gray (1716–1771) English poet, historian
St. 25 <br class="br"> Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=elcc (written 1750, publ. 1751)
“No one remembers the singer. The song remains.”
Terry Pratchett book The Last Hero
Source: The Last Hero
“The song of the wind singer will set you free.”
William Nicholson (1948) British screenwriter, playwright and novelist
Source: The "Wind on Fire" Trilogy (2000-2003), The Wind Singer (Book 1), p. 77
“Who's ever heard of a singer criticized by his song?”
Four-Word Letter, Pt 2.
Catch For Us The Foxes (2004)
“Full lasting is the song, though he,
The singer, passes”
George Meredith (1828–1909) British novelist and poet of the Victorian era
The Thrush in February, st. 17 (1888).
Charles Jefferys (1807–1865) British music publisher
Mary of Argyle, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
