Famous quotes containing the words official, sung and/or verse:
“All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, sports, advertising, popular songs, news, all continually repeat the same structure, the same meaning, often the same words: the stereotype is a political fact, the major figure of ideology.”
—Roland Barthes (1915–1980)
“I have sung all night
for the mouths that float back later,
one by one,
holding a lady’s wornout shoe.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“Verse calls them forth; ‘tis verse that gives
Immortal youth to mortal maids.”
—Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864)
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