Ascending Melodic Minor

Famous quotes containing the words ascending, melodic and/or minor:

    To do good is like ascending a mountain; to do evil as easy as following an avalanche.
    Chinese proverb.

    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 (1871–1938)

    A certain minor light may still
    Leap incandescent

    Out of kitchen table or chair
    As if a celestial burning took
    Possession of the most obtuse objects now and then—
    Sylvia Plath (1932–1963)