Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Sandburg

Poetry is a tracing of the trajectories of a finite sound to the infinite points of its echoes.

Dennis Prager

Leftists' meanness toward those with whom they differ has no echo on the normative right.

Edwidge Danticat

The people did not elect me. I speak with one voice that may echo other people, but I am part of a group of people. That's not distancing yourself from a community, that's also allowing the space for others to speak for themselves.

Bruce Chatwin

Tyranny sets up its own echo-chamber.

Anna Jameson

Reputation being essentially contemporaneous, is always at the mercy of the Envious and the Ignorant. But Fame, whose very birth is posthumous, and which is only known to exist by the echo of its footsteps through congenial minds, can neither be increased nor diminished by any degree of wilfulness.

Anna Jameson

Fame is that which is known to exist by the echo of its footsteps through congenial minds.

Adelaide Anne Procter

Seated one day at the organ, I was weary and ill at ease, and my fingers wandered idly over the noisy keys. It seemed the harmonious echo from our discordant life.

Allen Ginsberg

From it's inception Beat poetry was hailed as "something NEW" and "like all good spontaneous jazz, newness is acceptable and expected - by hip people who listen." But the newness of jazz has in it the echoes of J. S. Bach.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow for ever and for ever.

Alexander Pope

The sound must seem an echo to the sense.

E. M. Forster

Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.

End rhymes are not enough. Every word-sound in a poem should find an echo in another, neighbouring word's sound to achieve what Ezra Pound called melopoeia. (This is something like what the Welsh call Cynghanned.)

Czeslaw Milosz

Leaves glowing in the sun, zealous hum of bumblebees, From afar, from somewhere beyond the river, echoes of lingering voices And the unhurried sounds of a hammer gave joy not only to me. Before the five senses were opened, and earlier than any beginning They waited, ready, for all those who would call themselves mortals, So that they might praise, as I do, life, that is, happiness.

Ambrose Bierce

applause, n. The echo of a platitude.

Alice Meynell

With mimicry, with praises, with echoes, or with answers, the poets have all but outsung the bell. The inarticulate bell has found too much interpretation, too many rhymes professing to close with her inaccessible utterance, and to agree with her remote tongue. The bell, like the bird, is a musician pestered with literature.

Anais Nin

Jazz is the music of the body. The breath comes through brass. It is the body's breath, and the strings' wails and moans are echoes of the body's music. It is the body's vibrations which ripple from the fingers. And the mystery of the withheld theme, known to jazz musicians alone, is like the mystery of our secret life. We give to others only peripheral improvisations.

William Shakespeare

If thou couldst, doctor, cast The water of my land, find her disease, And purge it to a sound and pristine health, I would applaud thee to the very echo, That should applaud you again.

Robert Henri

Look for echoes. Sometimes the same shape or direction will echo through the picture.

Robert A. Heinlein

Talking with a Martian is something like talking with an echo. You don't get any argument but you don't get results either.

Ron Fournier

I'm hearing echoes of Bill Clinton, circa 1996, in President Obama's reelection rhetoric.

Ray Bradbury

[He] was always here to offer cups of good clear Walden Pond, or shout down the deep well of Shakespeare and listen, with satisfaction, for echoes. Here the lion and the hartebeest lay together, here the jackass became a unicorn.

Rajneesh

Life reflects, life resounds, life echoes whatsoever you throw at life.

John Piper

My feelings are not God. God is God. My feelings do not define truth. God’s word defines truth. My feelings are echoes and responses to what my mind perceives. And sometimes - many times - my feelings are out of sync with the truth. When that happens - and it happens every day in some measure - I try not to bend the truth to justify my imperfect feelings, but rather, I plead with God: Purify my perceptions of your truth and transform my feelings so that they are in sync with the truth.

John Piper

Our concern with truth is simply an echo of our concern with God .

If we have echoes, those echoes step on top of the spoken word, and then you can't understand it. And if you can't understand the words here, there's no reason for a convention.

George Santayana

Poetry is an attenuation, a rehandling, an echo of crude experience; it is itself a theoretic vision of things at arm's length.

Fiona Apple

I was screaming into the canyon at the moment of my death; the echo I created outlasted my last breath,

Henri Barbusse

I am more sensitive than other people. Things that other people would not notice awaken a distinct echo in me, and in such moments of lucidity, when I look at myself, I see that I am alone, all alone, all alone.

George Eliot

Souls live on in perpetual echoes.

William Shakespeare

By heaven, he echoes me,As if there were some monster in his thoughtToo hideous to be shown.

George William Curtis

A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I listened for the echo, and I heard only praise —

Friedrich Nietzsche

That which an age considers evil is usually an unseasonable echo of what was formerly considered good - the atavism of an old ideal.