Southern Song

Famous quotes containing the words southern and/or song:

“Southern trees bear a strange fruit
Blood on the leaf and blood at the root
Black bodies swingin’ in the southern breeze
Strange fruit hangin’ in the poplar trees.”
—Billie Holiday [Eleanor Fagan] (1915–1959)

“I made my song a coat
Covered with embroideries
Out of old mythologies”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)