What did James Weldon Johnson mean by: O Black and unknown bards of long ago, How came your lips to touch the sacred fire? - James Weldon Johnson Author · USA Copy
+ And God stepped out on space, and He looked around and said: I’m lonely – I’ll make me a world. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, James Weldon Johnson, Lonely, 0 - James Weldon Johnson Author · USA
+ As yet, the Negroes themselves do not fully appreciate these old slave songs. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, James Weldon Johnson, Appreciate, Slave, 0 - James Weldon Johnson Author · USA
+ With his head in his hands, God thought and thought, Till he thought: I’ll make me a man! Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, James Weldon Johnson, Hands, 0 - James Weldon Johnson Author · USA
+ It’s no disgrace to be black, but it’s often very inconvenient. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, James Weldon Johnson, Black, Disgrace, 0 - James Weldon Johnson Author · USA
+ As I look back now I can see that I was a perfect little aristocrat. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, James Weldon Johnson, Aristocracy, Perfect, 0 - James Weldon Johnson Author · USA
+ Young man, young man, your arm’s too short to box with God. Feraz Zeid, October 30, 2023December 26, 2023, James Weldon Johnson, God, Hand, 0 - James Weldon Johnson Author · USA
+ And so for a couple of years my life was divided between my music and my school books. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, James Weldon Johnson, Book, Couple, School, 0 - James Weldon Johnson Author · USA
+ I thought of Paris as a beauty spot on the face of the earth, and of London as a big freckle. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, James Weldon Johnson, Earth, Paris, Travel, 0 - James Weldon Johnson Author · USA
The heart desires, the hand refrains. The Godhead fires, the soul attains. - William Morris Designer · England
If classical music is the state of the art, then the arts are in a sad state. - Frank Zappa Musician · USA
Books can ignite fires in your mind, because they carry ideas for kindling, and art for matches. - Gary D. Schmidt Author
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
