Famous quotes containing the word voice:
“By weaker accents, whats your praise
When Philomel her voice doth raise?”
—Sir Henry Wotton (15681639)
“When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the storys voice makes everything its own.”
—John Berger (b. 1926)
“With fingers weary and worn,
With eyelids heavy and red,
A woman sat, in unwomanly rags,
Plying her needle and thread
Stitch! stitch! stitch!
In poverty, hunger and dirt
And still with a voice of dolorous pitch
She sang the Song of the Shirt.”
—Thomas Hood (17991845)
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