Nightingales Quotes

“My love,
you are driving the entire world mad.
The nightingales are committing suicide
one by one out of jealousy of your voice.
The roses took one glance at your beauty
and folded themselves from shame.
The trees now only whisper your name
and the sky hasn’t stopped crying since you looked up.
Have pity on us, my love.
We have already broken all the mirrors and glass
out of fear that you will forget us
and fall in love with yourself
once you see what we all
cannot stop seeing.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“It is very normal for one ugly weed to not want to stand alone.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“Here is the soundless cypress on the lawn:
It listens, listens. Taller trees beyond
Listen. The moon at the unruffled pond
Stares. And you sing, you sing.

That star-enchanted song falls through the air
From lawn to lawn down terraces of sound,
Darts in white arrows on the shadowed ground;
And all the night you sing.

My dreams are flowers to which you are a bee
As all night long I listen, and my brain
Receives your song, then loses it again
In moonlight on the lawn.

Now is your voice a marble high and white,
Then like a mist on fields of paradise,
Now is a raging fire, then is like ice,
Then breaks, and it is dawn.”
― Harold Monro, Collected poems;

“Nightingales have something to sing, dogs, they find something to bark”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“She and her brother, harvesting those long, tall flowers, some almost as tall as they were. She bit into a husk. Her nostrils filled with a hay-like scent that seemed to linger on her fingers. Even now, she knew the familiar fragrance…”
― Suzy Davies, The Nightingale and The Sunflower

“He sings till the cherries begin to colour,' he said as we listened to the nightingale.”
― Adrian Bell, A Countryman’s Summer Notebook

“I'm an American, I have never heard a nightingale sing,
although all the poems say the song of that bird is sublime.”
― Marie Howe, The Kingdom of Ordinary Time: Poems