Jack London Quotes About Songs

Quotes about: Songs

• With the aurora borealis flaming coldly overhead, or the stars leaping in the frost dance, and the land numb and frozen under its pall of snow, this song of the huskies might have been the defiance of life, only it was pitched in minor key, with long-drawn wailings and half-sobs, and was more the pleading of life, the articulate travail of existence. It was an old song, old as the breed itself--one of the first songs of the younger world in a day when songs were sad.

  Jack London

  Song, Stars, Keys

  Rudyard Kipling, Hugh Lofting, Jack London, Kenneth Grahame, Anna Sewell (2017). “Five Classic Animal Adventures: The Jungle Book, The Story of Doctor Dolittle, The Call of the Wild, The Wind in the Willows, and Black Beauty”, p.257, Open Road Media

• I'd rather sing one wild song and burst my heart with it, than live a thousand years watching my digestion and being afraid of the wet.

  Jack London

  Song, Heart, Years

  Jack London (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jack London (Illustrated)”, p.4442, Delphi Classics

• Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.

  Jack London

  Song, Life Is, Life Is So Short

  Jack London (2015). “Jack London on Adventure: Words of Wisdom from an Expert Adventurer”, p.6, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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