Guitar Gently Weeps

Famous quotes containing the words guitar, gently and/or weeps:

    Swiftly in the nights,
    In the porches of Key West,
    Behind the bougainvilleas
    After the guitar is asleep,
    Lasciviously as the wind,
    You come tormenting.
    Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    If thou and nature can so gently part,
    The stroke of death is as a lover’s pinch,
    Which hurts, and is desired.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    Unsophisticated and confiding, they are easily led into every vice, and humanity weeps over the ruin thus remorselessly inflicted upon them by their European civilizers.
    Herman Melville (1819–1891)