„In Arcady there lies a crystal spring
Ring'd all about with green melodious reeds
Swaying seal'd music up and down the wind.
Here on its time-defaced pedestal
The image of a half-forgotten God
Crumbles to its complete oblivion.“

„Here lies a toppled god.
His fall was not a small one.
We did but build his pedestal,
A narrow and a tall one.“

—  Frank Herbert, книга Dune Messiah

Источник: Dune Messiah

„Those sweet, vague sounds are on the air,
Half sleep, half song--half false, half true,
As if the wind that brought them there
Had touched them with its music too.“

—  Letitia Elizabeth Landon English poet and novelist 1802 - 1838

The Vow of the Peacock (1835)

„Good rain is coming to our delight.
Its early-spring timing is perfectly right.
With wind it drifts in all through the night.
Silently it's drenching everything in sight.“

—  Du Fu Chinese poet of the Tang Dynasty 712 - 770

"Welcome Rain in a Spring Night" (《春夜喜雨》), as translated by Ying Sun http://www.musicated.com/syh/tangpoems.htm (2008)
Добавить примечание: (zh_Hant) 好雨知時節，當春乃發生。
隨風潛入夜，潤物細無聲。

„The human body is a machine which winds its own springs.“

—  Julien Offray de La Mettrie, книга Man a Machine

Man a Machine (1747)

„[About Algol 60] Here is a language so far ahead of its time, that it was not only an improvement on its predecessors, but also on nearly all its successors.“

—  C. A. R. Hoare British computer scientist 1934

Hints on Programming Language Design http://i.stanford.edu/pub/cstr/reports/cs/tr/73/403/CS-TR-73-403.pdf, December 1973.

„Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.“

—  Aristotle Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy -384 - -321 до н.э.

„In the green water, clear and warm,
Susanna lay.
She searched
The touch of springs,
And found
Concealed imaginings.
She sighed,
For so much melody.“

—  Wallace Stevens American poet 1879 - 1955

Peter Quince at the Clavier (1915)

„They claim this mother of ours, the earth, for their own and fence their neighbors away; they deface her with their buildings and their refuse. That nation is like a spring freshet that overruns its banks and destroys all who are in its path. We cannot dwell side by side.“

—  Sitting Bull Hunkpapa Lakota medicine man and holy man 1831 - 1890

GoodReads https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/5712889.Sitting_Bull
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„There's music in the sighing of a reed;
There's music in the gushing of a rill;
There's music in all things, if men had ears;
The earth is but the music of the spheres.“

—  George Gordon Byron English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement 1788 - 1824

„Literature is the noblest of all the arts. Music dies on the air, or at best exists only as a memory; oratory ceases with the effort; the painter's colors fade and the canvas rots; the marble is dragged from its pedestal and is broken into fragments.“

—  Elbert Hubbard American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher fue el escritor del jarron azul 1856 - 1915

p. 170.

„Green in the spring winds
the south bank of the Yangtse
When will the bright moon
light my journey home?“

—  Wang Anshi Song Dynasty chancellor and poet 1021 - 1086

(zh-CN) 春风又绿江南岸，明月何时照我还？

《泊船瓜洲》

„The warmth of zeal is not perhaps the most dangerous rock that we have to avoid; but rather that languour which ease produces and a distrust of our own courage. Therefore continually wind up the sacred spring of republican government, instead of letting it run down. I need not say that I am not here justifying any excess. Principles the most sacred may be abused: the wisdom of government should guide its operations according to circumstances, it should time its measures, choose its means; for the manner of bringing about great things is an essential part of the talent of producing them, just as wisdom is an essential attribute of virtue....“

—  Maximilien Robespierre French revolutionary lawyer and politician 1758 - 1794

Principles to Form the Basis of the Administration of the Republic (February 1794)

„What was he doing, the great god Pan,
Down in the reeds by the river?“

—  Elizabeth Barrett Browning English poet, author 1806 - 1861

A Musical Instrument http://www.webterrace.com/browning/A%20Musical%20Instrument.htm, st. 1 (1860).
Контексте: What was he doing, the great god Pan,
Down in the reeds by the river?
Spreading ruin and scattering ban,
Splashing and paddling with hoofs of a goat,
And breaking the golden lilies afloat
With the dragon-fly on the river.

„Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed.“

—  George Henry Lewes British philosopher 1817 - 1878

Источник: The Spanish Drama (1846), Ch. 2

„Climate change is by no means the sole or even the most significant symptom of the changing interests and values of the West. Still, only societies with high levels of cultural amnesia – that have forgotten the scriptures about man created 'in the image and likeness of God' and charged with 'subduing the earth and all its creatures“

—  Tony Abbott Australian politician 1957

could have made such a religion out of it.
Quoted in "'I've learnt to speak my mind': 10 excerpts from Tony Abbott's climate change speech in London'" http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/ive-learnt-to-speak-my-mind-ten-excerpts-from-tony-abbotts-climate-change-speech-in-london-20171009-gyxk92.html, Sydney Morning Herald, October 10, 2017
2017

„At no time are we ever in such complete possession of a journey, down to its last nook and cranny, as when we are busy with preparations for it.“

—  Yukio Mishima, книга Confessions of a Mask

Источник: Confessions of a Mask (1949), p. 118.
Контексте: At no time are we ever in such complete possession of a journey, down to its last nook and cranny, as when we are busy with preparations for it. After that, there remains only the journey itself, which is nothing but the process through which we lose our ownership of it.

„Time, like an ever-rolling stream,
Bears all its sons away;
They fly forgotten, as a dream
Dies at the opening day.“

—  Isaac Watts English hymnwriter, theologian and logician 1674 - 1748

Psalm 90 st. 5.
1710s, "Our God, our help in ages past" (1719)

„By and large the present day Indian film music lacks soulful melody, sublime spirit and compelling charm of its lyrical intensity and has nothing Hindustani in it.“

—  Ram Narayan classical sarangi player from India 1927

[Sharma, S. D., Sarangi maestro calls present music soulless drudgery, The Tribune, 28 February 2008, http://www.webcitation.org/5pb5rvJkI]

„Sometimes this fellow's music was like little colored pieces of crystal candy, and other times it was the softest, saddest thing she had ever imagined about.“

—  Carson McCullers, книга The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

Источник: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter