American Love Songs

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“It is a thing which every sensible American should learn from every sensible Englishman, that glare and glitter, gimcracks and gewgaws, are not indispensable to domestic solacement.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)

“It is with an old love as it is with old age—a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)

“Music is so much a part of their daily lives that if an Indian visits another reservation one of the first questions asked on his return is: “What new songs did you learn?””
—Federal Writers’ Project Of The Wor, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)