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 writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when hes written it.”
—William Golding (b. 1911)