What did Thomas Hood mean by: There is not a string attuned to mirth but has its chord of melancholy. - Thomas Hood Poet · England Copy
+ What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind. What is the soul? It is immaterial. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Thomas Hood, Mind, Soul, 0 - Thomas Hood Poet · England
+ My books kept me from the ring, the dog-pit, the tavern, and the saloon. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Thomas Hood, Book, Dog, Reading, 0 - Thomas Hood Poet · England
+ Sweet are the little brooks that run O’er pebbles glancing in the sun, Singing in soothing tones. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Thomas Hood, Running, Singing, Sweet, 0 - Thomas Hood Poet · England
+ How bravely Autumn paints upon the sky The gorgeous fame of Summer which is fled! Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Thomas Hood, Autumn, Sky, Summer, 0 - Thomas Hood Poet · England
+ Some sigh for this and that; My wishes don’t go far; The world may wag at will, So I have my cigar. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Thomas Hood, Wish, 0 - Thomas Hood Poet · England
+ But evil is wrought by want of thought, As well as want of heart! Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Thomas Hood, Atheism, Evil, Heart, 0 - Thomas Hood Poet · England
+ For man may pious texts repeat, And yet religion have no inward seat Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Thomas Hood, Inward, Religion, 0 - Thomas Hood Poet · England
+ A certain portion of the human race has certainly a taste for being diddled. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Thomas Hood, Atheism, Race, Taste, 0 - Thomas Hood Poet · England
Everything tender and melancholy – as life is sometimes, just for one moment. - Jean Rhys Writer · Dominica
The value of ourselves is but the value of our melancholy and our disquiet. - Maurice Maeterlinck Playwright · Belgium
A noble craft, but somehow a most melancholy! All noble things are touched with that. - Herman Melville Author · USA
Melancholy cannot be clearly proved to others, so it is better to be silent about it. - James Boswell
Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject. - George Santayana
I listen to Prince on my iPad. And I use a Chords & Scales app to warm up before performing. - Janelle Monae Singer-songwriter and actress
