State Folk Song

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

“Thou knowest in the state of innocency Adam fell, and what
should poor Jack Falstaff do in the days in villainy?”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“Some folk want their luck buttered.”
—Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)

“Do you hear the wind? It’s not dying,
It’s singing, weaving a song about the president saluting the trust,
The past in each of us....”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)