Notes Quotations | Page 6

. . . I would stand, If the night blackened with a coming storm, Beneath some rock, listening to notes that are The ghostly language of the ancient earth, Or make their dim abode in distant winds. Thence did I drink the visionary power; And deem not profitless those fleeting moods Of shadowy exultation: not for this, That they are kindred to our purer mind And intellectual life; but that the soul, Remembering how she felt, but what she felt Remembering not, retains an obscure sense Of possible sublimity. . . .

. . . I would stand,If the night blackened with a coming storm,Beneath some rock, listening to notes that areThe ghostly language of the ancient earth,Or make their dim abode in distant winds.Thence did I drink the visionary power;And deem not profitless those fleeting moodsOf shadowy exultation: not for this,That they are kindred to our purer mindAnd intellectual life; but that the soul,Remembering how she felt, but what she feltRemembering not, retains an obscure senseOf possible sublimity. . . .

Those first few songs I wrote, I was taking notes at a fantastic rock concert going on in my head.

Gaiety alone, as it were, is the hard cash of happiness; everything else is just a promissory note.

Charity is the note that resolves the discord.

Written in Early Spring I heard a thousand blended notes While in a grove I sate reclined, In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts Bring sad thoughts to the mind. To her fair works did Nature link The human soul that through me ran; And much it grieved my heart to think What Man has made of Man.

DISCRIMINATE, v.i. To note the particulars in which one person or thing is, if possible, more objectionable than another.

Care not for want of place; care for thy readiness to fill one. Care not for being unknown, but seek to be worthy of note.

I'll note you in my book of memory.

The sound is forced, the notes are few!

The olive-grove of Academe, / Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird / Trills her thick-warbled notes the summer long.

For the actor, The Lee Strasberg Notes are an indispensable companion.

Wherever you are, be all there! Live to the hilt every situation you believe to be the will of God.

I can't help it if the ladies take note of me; I am not going to protest.

What convinces is not necessarily true-it is merely convincing: a note for asses.

I learned to observe the world around me, and to note what I saw

I am the rest between two notes which are somehow always in discord.

I note the obvious differences between each sort and type, but we are more alike, my friends, than we are unalike.

A humorist doesn't really do that much note-taking.

No one can explain how the notes of a Mozart melody, or the folds of a piece of Titian's drapery, produce their essential effects. If you do not feel it, no one can by reasoning make you feel it.

All of one's life is music, if one touches the notes rightly, and in time.

Thy liquid notes that close the eye of day.

The dim roar of London was like the bourdon note of a distant organ

It is useful to constantly observe, note, and consider.

True art takes note not merely of form but also of what lies behind.

You've got to know what goes between the notes.

Are we not formed, as notes of music are, For one another, though dissimilar?

I learn a great deal by merely observing you, and letting you talk as long as you please, and taking note of what you do not say.