Famous quotes containing the words ascending, melodic and/or minor:
“Life seems to be an experience in ascending and descending. You think youre beginning to live for a single aimfor self-development, or the discovery of cosmic truthswhen all youre really doing is to move from place to place as if devoted primarily to real estate.”
—Margaret Anderson (18861973)
“Whose starward eye
Saw chariot swing low? And who was he
That breathed that comforting, melodic sigh,
Nobody knows de trouble I see?”
—James Weldon Johnson (18711938)
“There are acacias, a graceful species amusingly devitalized by sentimentality, this kind drooping its leaves with the grace of a young widow bowed in controllable grief, this one obscuring them with a smooth silver as of placid tears. They please, like the minor French novelists of the eighteenth century, by suggesting a universe in which nothing cuts deep.”
—Rebecca West (18921983)