Quotes of Lyre - somelinesforyou

“ I took my lyre and said: come now, my heavenly tortoise shell: become a speaking instrument. ”

- Sappho

“ Without taste genius is only a sublime kind of folly. That sure touch which the lyre gives back the right note and nothing more, is even a rarer gift than the creative faculty itself. ”

- Vicomte de Chateaubriand

“ You can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing? ”

- Kahlil Gibran

“ You will certainly not be able to take the lead in all things yourself, for to one man a god has given deeds of war, and to another the dance, to another lyre and song, and in another wide-sounding Zeus puts a good mind. ”

- Homer
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