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“The nightingale has a lyre of gold, The lark's is a clarion call, And the blackbird plays but a boxwood flute, But I love him best of all. For his song is all the joy of life, And we in the mad spring weather, We two have listened till he sang Our hearts and lips together.”

Heart Two Play Together Joy Song Spring Gold Mad Lips Weather Joy Of Life I Love Him Flutes Nightingales Larks Blackbirds

Book:A Book of Verses

Source: A Book of Verses

“Sweet bird that shunn'st the nose of folly, Most musical, most melancholy! Thee, chauntress, oft, the woods among, I woo, to hear thy even-song.”

Song Sweet Bird Musical Woods Thee Noses Folly Melancholy Nightingales

Author:John Milton

“Music exists when rhythmic, melodic or harmonic order is deliberately created, and consciously listened to, and it is only language-using, self-conscious creatures ... who are capable of organizing sounds in this way, either when uttering them or when perceiving them. We can hear music in the song of the nightingale, but it is music that no nightingale has heard.”

Way Self Song Order Language Sound Music Heard Creatures Capable Conscious Self Conscious Nightingales

Book:Understanding Music: Philosophy and Interpretation

Source: Understanding Music: Philosophy and Interpretation

“The nightingale is sovereign of song.”

Song Sovereign Nightingales

Book:The poetical works of Edmund Spenser: With memoir and critical dissertations

Source: The poetical works of Edmund Spenser: With memoir and critical dissertations

“Even a man's exact imitation of the song of the nightingale displeases us when we discover that it is a mimicry, and not the nightingale.”

Men Song Imitation Nightingales Mimicry

Author:Immanuel Kant

“The love-lorn nightingale nightly to thee her sad song mourneth well.”

Wells Song Thee Nightingales Sad Song

Book:Comus: A Mask Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634, Before the Earl of Bridgewater ...

Source: Comus: A Mask Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634, Before the Earl of Bridgewater ...

“Rather than recallin these flowersthe fragrance of the past,I would like to hear this nightingale's voice,to know if his song is as sweet.”

Ifs Knows Past Song Voice Sweet Fragrance Nightingales

Author:Izumi Shikibu

“Nightingales are put in cages because their songs give pleasure. Whoever heard of keeping a crow?”

Giving Spiritual Song Growth Pleasure Heard Spiritual Growth Cages Crow Nightingales

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“Great people will always be mocked by those who feel smaller than them. However, a lion does not flinch at laughter coming from a hyena. A gorilla does not budge from a banana thrown at it by a monkey. A nightingale does not stop singing its beautiful song at the intrusion of an annoying woodpecker. Whenever you should question your self-worth, remember the lotus flower. Even though it plunges to life from beneath the mud, it does not allow the dirt that surrounds it to affect its growth or beauty.”