State Folk Song

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

    “Mother,
    each time I talk to God
    you interfere.
    You of the bla-bla set,
    carrying on about the state of letters.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “Babies are beautiful, wonderful, exciting, enchanting, extraordinary little creatures—who grow up into ordinary folk like us.”
    —Doris Dyson. quoted in What Is a Baby?, By Richard and Helen Exley.

    “Marlowe went muttering to death
    When he had done with song and lust.”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)