English Musician

Famous quotes containing the words english and/or musician:

    He that bulls the cow must keep the calf.
    —Sixteenth-century English proverb.

    Nota: man is the intelligence of his soil,
    The sovereign ghost. As such, the Socrates
    Of snails, musician of pears, principium
    And lex. Sed quæritur: is this same wig
    Of things, this nincompated pedagogue,
    Preceptor to the sea?
    Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)