State Folk Song

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

    “If the propositions of this Discourse are tenable, the “state of progressive collapse” is precisely that state in which alone we are warranted in considering All Things.”
    —Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)

    “In the past, the English tried to impose a system wherever they went. They destroyed the nation’s culture and one of the by- products of their systemisation was that they destroyed their own folk culture.”
    —Martin Carthy (b. 1941)

    “Now that you are laid out,
    useless as a blind dog,
    now that you no longer lurk,
    the song rings in my head.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)