Listening

Famous quotes containing the word listening:

    “Teach me half the gladness
    That thy brain must know,
    Such harmonious madness
    From my lips would flow,
    The world should listen then, as I am listening now.”
    —Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)

    “While yet a boy I sought for ghosts, and sped
    Through many a listening chamber, cave and ruin,
    And starlight wood, with fearful steps pursuing
    Hopes of high talk with the departed dead.”
    —Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)

    “What means the fact—which is so common, so universal—that some soul that has lost all hope for itself can inspire in another listening soul an infinite confidence in it, even while it is expressing its despair?”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)