Official Sung Verse

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

    ... it is a rather curious thing to have to divide one’s life into personal and official compartments and temporarily put the personal side into its hidden compartment to be taken out again when one’s official duties are at an end.
    Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962)

    Bert, the big-foot, sung by Villon,
    Cassandra, Ronsard found in Lyon.
    Queens of Sheba, Meath, and Connaught,
    Coifed with crown, or gaudy bonnet;
    —J.M. (John Millington)

    Then my verse I dishonour, my pictures despise,
    My person degrade & my temper chastise;
    And the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame;
    And my talents I bury, and dead is my fame.
    William Blake (1757–1827)