Official Sung Verse

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)

    “This be the verse you grave for me:
    Here he lies where he longed to be;
    Home is the sailor, home from the sea,
    And the hunter home from the hill.”
    —Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)