Famous quotes containing the words title, theme and/or music:
“In Goyas greatest scenes we seem to see
the people of the world
exactly at the moment when
they first attained the title of
suffering humanity”
—Lawrence Ferlinghetti (b. 1919)
“Children became an obsessive theme in Victorian culture at the same time that they were being exploited as never before. As the horrors of life multiplied for some children, the image of childhood was increasingly exalted. Children became the last symbols of purity in a world which was seen as increasingly ugly.”
—C. John Sommerville (20th century)
“For I have learned
To look on nature, not as in the hour
Of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes
The still, sad music of humanity.”
—William Wordsworth (17701850)
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