Famous quotes containing the words nightingale and/or wrote:
“I envy no mans nightingale or spring;
Nor let them punish me with loss of rhyme,
Who plainly say, My God, My King.”
—George Herbert (15931633)
“The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels & God, and at liberty when of Devils & Hell, is because he was a true Poet, and of the Devils party without knowing it.”
—William Blake (17571827)