Famous quotes containing the words tribute, performer and/or singing:
“O heart, we are old;
The living beauty is for younger men:
We cannot pay its tribute of wild tears.”
—William Butler Yeats (18651939)
“Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go, and is only right admirable when to all its beauty and speed a subserviency to the will, like that of walking, is added.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“I said, the poets are there
I hear them singing and lying
around their round table
and around me still.”
—Anne Sexton (19281974)