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)

    “but you are not deaf,
    you pick out
    your own song from the uproar
    line by line,
    and at last throw back
    your head and sing it.”
    —Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

    “Our institutions have a potent digestion, and may in time convert and assimilate to good all elements thrown in, however originally alien.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)