Paean Quotes

There's something almost adolescent about Whitman's paean to everything that was and remains good about America. (Anita Diament)
My biography of Frank Sinatra is not paean to his music but rather an illumination of the man behind the music, who once described himself as 'an 18-karat manic-depressive who lived a life of violent emotional contradictions with an over-acute capacity for sadness as well as happiness. View quote
Kitty Kelley
"Education to personality" has become a pedagogical ideal that turns its back upon the standardized-the collective and normal-human being. It thus fittingly recognizes the historical fact that the great, liberating deeds of world history have come from leading personalities and never from the inert mass that is secondary at all times and needs a demagogue if it is to move at all. The paean of the Italian nation is addressed to the personality of the Duce, and dirges of other nations lament the absence of great leaders. View quote
Carl Jung
Eyes forward! Sing a paean to the light That God gives us to net the distant stars In eyes that once were blinded with black earth. View quote
Philip José Farmer