Harp Quotes - page 2

O lay me, ye that see the light, near some rock of my hills! let the thick hazels be around, let the rustling oak be near. Green be the place of my rest; let the sound of the distant torrent be heard. Daughter of Toscar, take the harp, and raise the lovely song of Selma, that sleep may overtake my soul in the midst of joy; that the dreams of my youth may return, and the days of the mighty Fingal. (James Macpherson)
Some gloomy autumn day, when the dreary north wind is howling, read Ossian to the accompaniment of the weird moans of an Æolian harp hung in the leafless branches of a tree, and you will experience a feeling of intense sadness, an infinite yearning for another state of existence, an intense disgust with the present. View quote
James Macpherson
I lay my harp on the curved table, Sitting there idly, filled only with emotions. Why should I trouble to play? A breeze will come and sweep the strings. View quote
Bai Juyi
The harp that once through Tara's halls The soul of music shed, Now hangs as mute on Tara's walls As if that soul were fled. So sleeps the pride of former days, So glory's thrill is o'er; And hearts that once beat high for praise Now feel that pulse no more. View quote
Thomas Moore
The Minstrel Boy to the war is gone, In the ranks of death you'll find him; His father's sword he has girded on, And his wild harp slung behind him. View quote
Thomas Moore
T is believ'd that this harp which I wake now for thee Was a siren of old who sung under the sea. View quote
Thomas Moore
To high-born Hoel's harp, or soft Llewellyn's lay. View quote
Thomas Gray
O, Harpo Death and thy clanking harp, hear! View quote
Harpo Marx
I have been a course, I have been an eagle. I have been a coracle in the seas: I have been compliant in the banquet. I have been a drop in a shower; I have been a sword in the grasp of the hand I have been a shield in battle. I have been a string in a harp, Disguised for nine years, in water, in foam. I have been sponge in the fire, I have been wood in the covert. View quote
Taliesin
Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings. View quote
John Muir
O harp and altar, of the fury fused, (How could mere toil align thy choiring strings!) Terrific threshold of the prophet's pledge, Prayer of pariah, and the lover's cry. (Hart Crane)
The harp at Nature's advent strung Has never ceased to play; The song the stars of morning sung Has never died away. View quote
John Greenleaf Whittier
Ought the world to be peopled by the children of hatred or disgust, the children of lust and loathing, or by the welcome babes of mutual love? Is it possible that an infinitely wise and compassionate God insists that a helpless woman shall remain the wife of a cruel wretch? Can this add to the joy of Paradise, or tend to keep one harp in tune? View quote
Robert G. Ingersoll
What is a harp but an oversized cheese slicer with cultural pretensions? View quote
Denis Norden
Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music. View quote
Diogenes of Sinope
I did not know whether I would ever speak to her or not or, if I spoke to her, how I could tell her of my confused adoration. But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires. View quote
James Joyce
I shall detain you no longer in the demonstration of what we should not do, but straight conduct ye to a hillside, where I will point ye out the right path of a virtuous and noble education; laborious indeed at the first ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect and melodious sounds on every side that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming. View quote
John Milton
What are they tuning, a harp? I thought we were a big rich rock band. We should have a whole bunch of extra guitars. View quote
Kurt Cobain
The others got heart, I got the harp. They grieved, had fun, me not, me not. O wretched me, can't live, nor part: my heart throbs not, but tingles, and rings! O dire fate, the hardest lot: no peace grants the night, the day no less, no mercy shows time, nor eternity: just a jeering and tingling heart-less-ness. View quote
Eino Leino
While man regards his body as a harp of pleasure to be played upon so long as its strings can be made to vibrate, so long will he continue to travel down the hill of physical decadence and degeneration in spite of quarantine laws and the most minute sanitary regulations. But when he recognizes his divine origin and obligations, and himself as the crowning masterpiece of creation, his body a precious thing, to be sacredly preserved, developed, expanded, and purified for service for humanity in this world, and a never-ending opportunity for development and joyous existence in the world to come, then only will he begin to climb toward the heights from which he has fallen, where he may once more stand forth as the crowning glory of creation, the masterpiece of God, "the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals.”. View quote
John Harvey Kellogg
Interestingly, she [Romila Thapar] has refrained from mentioning the persecution of Buddhists by Pushyamitra Shunga... and the melting of idols by king Harsha of Kashmir, which had so far figured most prominently in the writings of her school. I wonder whether she has realized that those allegations have no legs to stand upon, even though others of her school continue to harp on them. (Pushyamitra Shunga)
I am free from ties and can live a life of retirement. When I rise from sleep, I play with books and harp. View quote
Tao Yuanming
A lot of reality shows tend to harp on the negative. The person isn't pretty enough or can't sing well enough or maybe isn't even funny enough. View quote
Bruce Nash
I grew up with a beautiful gold harp sitting in our living room. My older sister played it. View quote
Diane Paulus
The beauty of recording in L.A. is that most of the musicians that are on the record live here, so it was easy to get world class artists like Rick Braun to swing by and play a little trumpet, Everette Harp on sax, guitarist Paul Jackson. View quote
Jeffrey Osborne