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«Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather»
Author: Anna Jameson (Essayist) | About: Conversation | Keywords: chord, chords, compared, lyre, scandal, scandals
«Hands, that the rod of empire might have swayed, / Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre.»
Author: Thomas Gray (Poet) | Keywords: lyre, swayed, waked
«GRAPE, n.Hail noble fruit! --by Homer sung, Anacreon and Khayyam; Thy praise is ever on the tongue Of better men than I am.The lyre in my hand has never swept, The song I cannot offer: My humbler service pray accept -- I'll help to kill the scoffer.The water-drinkers and the cranks Who load their skins with liquor -- I'll gladly bear their belly-tanks And tap them with my sticker.Fill up, fill up, for wisdom cools When e'er we let the wine rest. Here's death to Prohibition's fools, And every kind of vine-pest! --Jamrach Holobom»
Author: Ambrose Bierce (Editor, Journalist, Writer) | Keywords: Anacreon, cools, crank, cranked, Cranks, drinkers, gladly, humbler, liquor, lyre, pest, prohibition, scoffer, scoffers, sticker, swept, tanks, The Pest, vine, water skin, water tap
«LYRE, n. An ancient instrument of torture. The word is now used in a figurative sense to denote the poetic faculty, as in the following fiery lines of our great poet, Ella Wheeler Wilcox:I sit astride Parnassus with my lyre, And pick with care the disobedient wire. That stupid shepherd lolling on his crook With deaf attention scarcely deigns to look. I bide my time, and it shall come at length, When, with a Titan's energy and strength, I'll grab a fistful of the strings, and O, The word shall suffer when I let them go! --Farquharson Harris»
Author: Ambrose Bierce (Editor, Journalist, Writer) | Keywords: bide, biding, deign, deigns, denote, denotes, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, faculty, fiery, figurative, fistful, grab, Harris, instrument of torture, lyre, Parnassus, poetic, strings, Titan, wheeler, wire
«God of the golden bow, / And of the golden lyre, / And of the golden hair, / And of the golden fire, / Charioteer / Of the patient year, / Where - where slept thine ire?»
Author: John Keats (Poet) | Keywords: Charioteer, ire, lyre
«You can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?»
Author: Kahlil Gibran (Essayist, Novelist, Poet) | Keywords: drum, loosen, loosened, loosening, loosens, lyre, muffle, muffling, skylark, skylarking, strings
«What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who has only his eyes if he is a painter, or his ears if he is a musician, or a lyre at every level of his heart if he is a poet, or, if he is merely a boxer, only his muscle? On the contrary, he is at the same time a political being, constantly alert to the heartrending, burning, or happy events in the world, molding himself in their likeness.»
Author: Pablo Picasso (Artist, Painter) | About: Art, Artists | Keywords: boxer, boxers, contrary, imbecile, imbeciles, level, lyre, muscle, musician, on the contrary, painter
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