“The birders I encountered in books and in the world shared little in common except this simple secret: if you listen to birds, every day will have a song in it.”
“Music communicates to us emotionally through systematic violations of expectations.”
Source: This Is Your Brain on Music
“You don’t ever really stop having a song. It’s easier to stop having a person than to stop having a song.”
Source: America Is Not the Heart
“You bound strong sandals on my feet,
You gave me bread and wine,
And sent me under sun and stars,
For all the world was mine.
Oh, take the sandals off my feet,
You know not what you do;
For all the world is in your arms,
My sun and stars are you.”
Source: The Collected Poems
“Train your mind to see the Hand of God beyond the closed door.”
Source: Beyond the Closed Door: Unique Keys to Unlock Destinies
“in your perfect fingers
I am only a shiver
a song of leaves
under the touch of your warm lips”
“And she sang. Perhaps she'd never stop, for it was rather freeing, this blissful, empowered place where she was nothing but rhythm and resonance.”
Source: Blood Shadow
“I was not born to drown”
Source: The Lumineers Cleopatra | Piano Vocal Guitar Songbook | Indie Folk Pop Sheet Music Book with 14 Official Songs | Piano Vocal Guitar Arrangements for Performers, Teachers, and Students | Hal Leonard
“God is just one more Clown
In this Circus of mine
(from song "no tunnel too dark")”
“But the strains of the doleful song stirred such powerful nostalgia for lost loves and for things lost over the course of one's life and for lives, like my grandfather's, that had come long before mine that I was suddenly taken back to a poor, disconsolate universe of simple folk like Mafalda's ancestors, fretting and scurrying in the tiny vicoli of an old Naples whose memory I wanted to share word for word with Oliver now, as if he too, like Mafalda and Manfredi and Anchise and me, were a fellow southerner whom I'd met in a foreign port city and who'd instantly understand why the sound of this old song, like an ancient prayer for the dead in the deadest of languages, could bring tears even in those who couldn't understand a syllable.”
Source: Call Me by Your Name