What did George Eliot mean by: So shall I join the choir invisible Whose music is the gladness of the world. - George Eliot Author · England Copy
+ Old men’s eyes are like old men’s memories; they are strongest for things a long way off. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, George Eliot, Eye, Memories, 0 - George Eliot Author · England
+ It is better sometimes not to follow great reformers of abuses beyond the threshold of their homes. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, George Eliot, Abuse, Home, Hypocrisy, 0 - George Eliot Author · England
+ There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, George Eliot, Style, 0 - George Eliot Author · England
+ The higher life begins for us … when we renounce our own will to bow before a Divine law. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, George Eliot, Bows, Law, Willpower, 0 - George Eliot Author · England
+ We get a deal o’ useless things about us, only because we’ve got the money to spend. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, George Eliot, Consumerism, Useless, 0 - George Eliot Author · England
+ I love words; they are the quoits, the bows, the staves that furnish the gymnasium of the mind. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, George Eliot, Bows, Mind, 0 - George Eliot Author · England
+ Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, George Eliot, Opportunity, Politics, Vices, 0 - George Eliot Author · England
+ Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, George Eliot, Trouble, 0 - George Eliot Author · England
If classical music is the state of the art, then the arts are in a sad state. - Frank Zappa Musician · USA
A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. - Leopold Stokowski Conductor · United Kingdom
Don’t only practise your art, but force your way into its secrets. - Ludwig van Beethoven Composer · Germany
A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become. - W. H. Auden Poet · England
Music stands in a much closer connection with pure sensation than any of the other arts. - Hermann von Helmholtz
Time to write and sing, to laugh, to listen, to discover, to cry, to love music. - Jeff Buckley Singer-songwriter