State Folk Song

Famous quotes containing the words state, folk and/or song:

    “I was never lost, but I was bewildered once for three days.”
    —Administration in the State of Miss, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    “An’ when the earth’s as cauld’s the mune
    An’ a’ its folk are lang syne deid,
    On coontless stars the Babe maun cry
    An’ the Crucified maun bleed.”
    —Hugh MacDiarmid (1892–1978)

    “The quarrel of the sparrows in the eaves,
    The full round moon and the star-laden sky,
    And the loud song of the ever-singing leaves,
    Had hid away earth’s old and weary cry.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)