Official Sung Verse

Famous quotes containing the words official, sung and/or verse:

“Our medieval historians who prefer to rely as much as possible on official documents because the chronicles are unreliable, fall thereby into an occasionally dangerous error. The documents tell us little about the difference in tone which separates us from those times; they let us forget the fervent pathos of medieval life.”
—Johan Huizinga (1872–1945)

“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)

“Thus have I made my own opinions clear;
Yet neither praise expect, nor censure fear:
And this unpolished, rugged verse I chose,
As fittest for discourse and nearest prose;”
—John Dryden (1631–1700)