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)

    Verse calls them forth; ‘tis verse that gives
    Immortal youth to mortal maids.
    Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864)