English Song Originally

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

    The “Communism” of the English intellectual is something explicable enough. It is the patriotism of the deracinated.
    George Orwell (1903–1950)

    My beloved is like a roe or a young hart:
    —Bible: Hebrew The Song of Solomon (l. II, 9)

    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)