Citizen Singing Contest

Famous quotes containing the words citizen, singing and/or contest:

“Loss of freedom seldom happens overnight. Oppression doesn’t stand on the doorstep with toothbrush moustache and swastika armband—it creeps up insidiously ... step by step, and all of a sudden the unfortunate citizen realises that it is gone.”
—Baron Lane (b. 1918)

“I said, the poets are there
I hear them singing and lying
around their round table
and around me still.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

“The contest ends at midnight tonight
But you can submit again, and again.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)