Sacred/listening

Famous quotes containing the words sacred and/or listening:

    “Mary, hear,
    O Mary, marry earth, sea, air and fire;
    Our sacred earth in our day is our curse.”
    —Robert Lowell (1917–1977)

    “Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.”
    —Lewis Thomas (b. 1913)