Upright Basses

Famous quotes containing the words upright and/or basses:

“An upright heart does not suspect others; one who suspects others has no upright heart.”
—Chinese proverb.

“Of a green evening, clear and warm,
She bathed in her still garden, while
The red-eyed elders watching, felt

The basses of their beings throb
In witching chords, and their thin blood
Pulse pizzicati of Hosanna.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)