Harps Quotes

• Life is like the harp string, if it is strung too tight it won't play, if it is too loose it hangs, the tension that produces the beautiful sound lies in the middle.

  Gautama Buddha

  Beautiful, Wise, Lying

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• Your body is the harp of the soul.

  Khalil Gibran

  Soul, Body, Human Body

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• Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.

  John Muir

  Cells, Tree, Music And Life

  John Muir (2013). “John Muir: Spiritual Writings”, p.64, Orbis Books

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• And tears are heard within the harp I touch.

  Petrarch

  Tears, Heard

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• Your body is the harp of your soul and it is yours to bring forth sweet music from it or confused sounds.

  Khalil Gibran

  Sweet, Confused, Soul

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• What is a harp but an oversized cheese slicer with cultural pretensions?

  Denis Norden

  Cheese, Pretension

  Frank Muir, Denis Norden (1984). “The utterly ultimate 'My word!' collection”, Methuen Pub Ltd

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• Kindness is the music of Good Will to men, and on this harp the smallest fingers may play heaven's sweetest tunes on earth.

  Elihu Burritt

  Kindness, Men, Play

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• And even if this world burns up hidden harps will still play here.

  Rumi

  Play, World, Stills

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• We all share in the same cosmic rhythm... For all natural laws are like the rhythm of the strings of the harp.

  Ernesto Cardenal

  Law, Natural, Share

  Ernesto Cardenal (1981). “Love”, Crossroad Publishing Company

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• Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Tunes, Tuning, Percent

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• And the wind plays on those great sonorous harps, the shrouds and masts of ships.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Wind, Play, Ships

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1851). “The prose works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.30

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• The willow tree plays the water like a harp.

  Ramon Gomez de la Serna

  Play, Water, Tree

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• The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, in Apollo, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body and reduce it to harmony.

  Francis Bacon

  Science, Men, Medicine

  Francis Bacon (1859). “The Works”, p.371

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• The perfection of conversation is not to play a regular sonata, but, like the AEolian harp, to await the inspiration of the passing breeze.

  Edmund Burke

  Inspiration, Play, Perfection

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• Each string of a wind harp responds with a different note to the same breeze. What activity makes you personally resonate most strongly, most deeply?

  David Steindl-Rast

  Wind, Independence, Different

  David Steindl-rast (2010). “Deeper Than Words: Living the Apostles' Creed”, p.137, Image

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• I can pass days
  Stretch'd in the shade of those old cedar trees,
  Watching the sunshine like a blessing fall,--
  The breeze like music wandering o'er the boughs,
  Each tree a natural harp,--each different leaf
  A different note, blent in one vast thanksgiving.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Nature, Fall, Sunshine

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1838). “Poetical works complete”, p.124

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• Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.

  Novalis

  Echoes, Musical, Tone

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• My soul is a hidden orchestra; I know not what instruments, what fiddlestrings and harps, drums and tamboura I sound and clash inside myself. All I hear is the symphony.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Symphony, Soul, Sound

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• And what if all of animated nature Be but organic harps diversely framed, That tremble into thought, as o'er them sweeps, Plastic and vast, one intellectual breeze, At once the soul of each, and God of all?

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Soul, Intellectual, What If

  'The Eolian Harp' (1796) l. 44

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• A happy union with wife and child is like the music of lutes and harps.

  Confucius

  Children, Wife, Unions

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• Hills tell old stories.  Cliffs are poets with harps.

  George MacKay

  Stories, Cliffs, Hills

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The harp sounds at each passing breeze, but that does not mean the tune is masterfully played.

  Jacqueline Carey

  Mean, Sound, Tunes

  Jacqueline Carey (2003). “Kushiel's Chosen: A Novel”, p.104, Macmillan

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• While a man is stringing a harp, he tries the strings, not for music, but for construction. When it is finished it shall be played for melodies. God is fashioning the human heart for future joy. He only sounds a string here and there to see how far His work has progressed.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Future, Heart, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.44

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• The actor should not play a part. Like the Aeolian harps that used to be hung in the trees to be played only by the breeze, the actor should be an instrument played upon by the character he depicts.

  Alla Nazimova

  Character, Play, Tree

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• Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all the chords with might; Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, passed in music out of sight.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Love, Life, Sight

  Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.114, Cambridge University Press

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