“One seed becomes
An everlasting song, a singing tree,
Caroling softly souls of slavery,
What they were, and what they are to me,
Caroling softly souls of slavery.”
from "Song of the Son"
Poems from Cane (1923)
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Jean Toomer 4
American poet and novelist 1894–1967Related quotes
“the voice of beauty speaks softly; it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls”
“I don't carol, said Simon. I'm Jewish. I only know the dreidel song.”
Alec Lightwood and Simon Lewis, pg. 244
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Heavenly Fire (2014)
Context: Above her another window opened, and Alec leaned out. 'What's going on?' His gaze landed on Clary and the others, his eyebrows drawing together in confusion. 'What is this? Early caroling?'
'I don't carol,' said Simon. 'I'm Jewish. I only know the dreidel song.
“What am I singing?
A song of seeds — The food of love. Eat the music.”
Song lyrics, The Red Shoes (1993)
“Love is the song of the soul, singing to God.”
Songs of the Soul by Paramahansa Yogananda, Quotes drawn from the poem "What is Love?"
“Sweete Themmes runne softly, till I end my Song.”
The last line of each stanza
This is often attributed to T. S. Eliot, who does indeed quote it in The Waste Land
Prothalamion (1596)
“Confederates were terrified of what was happening to slavery.”
Source: Look Away!: A History of the Confederate States of America (2002), p. 150
