Court Musician

Famous quotes containing the words court and/or musician:

    “GOETHE, raised o’er joy and strife,
    Drew the firm lines of Fate and Life,
    And brought Olympian wisdom down
    To court and mar, to gown and town,
    Stooping, his finger wrote in clay
    The open secret of to-day.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “I think
    The nightingale, if she should sing by day
    When every goose is cackling, would be thought
    No better a musician than the wren.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)