“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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American poet 1911–1979Related quotes

“Brushing with hasty steps the dews away,
To meet the sun upon the upland lawn.”
St. 25
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=elcc (written 1750, publ. 1751)
“The song of the wind singer will set you free.”
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”
The Thrush in February, st. 17 (1888).
Mary of Argyle, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).