English Song Originally

Famous quotes containing the words english, song and/or originally:

    “Before the Roman came to Rye or out to Severn strode,
    The rolling English drunkard made the rolling English road.”
    —Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)

    “Now that you are laid out,
    useless as a blind dog,
    now that you no longer lurk,
    the song rings in my head.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man.”
    —Ezra Pound (1885–1972)