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“But would you sing, and rival Orpheus' strain. The wond'ring forests soon should dance again; The moving mountains hear the powerful call. And headlong streams hand listening in their fall!”

Should Hands Moving Fall Powerful Listening Mountain Singing Rings Forests Streams Strain Rivals Orpheus

Author:Alexander Pope

“All which isn't singing is mere talking... and all talking's to oneself alone but the very song of (as mountains feel and lovers) singing is silence.”

Feels Song Silence Talking Lovers Mountain Singing Mere Oneself

Author:e. e. cummings

“All mountain streets have streams to thread them, or deep grooves where a stream might run. You would do well to avoid that range uncomforted by singing floods. You will find it forsaken of most things but beauty and madness and death and God.”

Wells Might Running Streets Mountain Singing Madness Range Streams Thread Flood Groove Forsaken

Book:Essential Mary Austin: A Selection of Mary Austin's Best Writing

Source: Essential Mary Austin: A Selection of Mary Austin's Best Writing

“When I think about singing, and music, I think about how the people who live on the East Tennessee side have more of a curve or yodel to their voices, and then you think about the curve of mountains.”

People Thinking Sides Voice Mountain Singing East Curves Tennessee East Tennessee

Author:Valerie June

“I guess I could be singing about Superman, or about Zarathustra coming down from the mountain, but in my mind I was singing about Julian Assange. I wish I could say that Nietzsche inspired my lyrics but all I can honestly say is I was inspired by the graphic design of these '70s paperback covers for Beyond Good & Evil and The Birth of Tragedy and The Gay Science.”

Mind I Can Evil Wish Design Birth Gay Mountain Singing Tragedy Inspired Honestly Graphic Graphic Design Good Evil Zarathustra Assange

Author:Dean Wareham

“When I was singing "King of the Mountain," it was a pivotal point in the show. That's the song that took us from this concert setting of individual songs into the theatrical narrative piece.”

Shows Song Individual Pieces Kings Mountain Singing Setting Settings Narrative Concerts Theatrical Pivotal

Author:Kate Bush

“Each in the most hidden sack kept the lost jewels of memory, intense love, secret nights and permanent kisses, the fragment of public or private happiness. A few, the wolves, collected thighs, other men loved the dawn scratching mountain ranges or ice floes, locomotives, numbers. For me happiness was to share singing, praising, cursing, crying with a thousand eyes. I ask forgiveness for my bad ways: my life had no use on earth.”

Source: Still Another Day

“Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that's the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire. Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing. Nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or a valley. For fear will rob him if he gives too much.”

Source: Cry, the beloved country: a verse drama

“A daughter of a King of Ireland, heard A voice singing on a May Eve like this, And followed half awake and half asleep, Until she came into the Land of Faery, Where nobody gets old and godly and grave, Where nobody gets old and crafty and wise, Where nobody gets old and bitter of tongue. And she is still there, busied with a dance Deep in the dewy shadow of a wood, Or where stars walk upon a mountain-top.”

May Stills Stars Voice Walks Half Wise Heard Land Kings Mountain Singing Daughter Shadow Woods Tongue Graves Bitter Awake Ireland Godly Crafty Mountain Top Voice Singing

Book:The Land of Heart's Desire

Source: The Land of Heart's Desire

“Gaily bedight, A gallant knight, In sunshine and in shadow, Had journeyed long, Singing a song, In search of Eldorado. But he grew old— This knight so bold— And o’er his heart a shadow— Fell as he found No spot of ground That looked like Eldorado. And, as his strength Failed him at length, He met a pilgrim shadow— ‘Shadow,’ said he, ‘Where can it be— This land of Eldorado?’ ‘Over the Mountains Of the Moon, Down the Valley of the Shadow, Ride, boldly ride,’ The shade replied,— ‘If you seek for Eldorado!”

Ifs Heart Long Said Song Found Land Strength Failure Grew Mets Moon Mountain Singing Shadow Spots Sunshine Length Shade Valleys Knights Pilgrim Gallant

Book:The Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

Source: The Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe