Rhapsody Quotes

“Violinists wear the imprint on their necks with pride
For they are the players of harmony.

Pilgrims, too, wear the imprint on their foreheads with pride
For they are the conductors of unity.

And Lovers? Why, they are made humble by the imprint on their hearts
For they are merely the instruments of rhapsody.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“The lamp hummed:
'Regard the moon,
La lune ne garde aucune rancune,
She winks a feeble eye,
She smiles into corners.
She smoothes the hair of the grass.
The moon has lost her memory.
A washed-out smallpox cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone
With all the old nocturnal smells
That cross and cross across her brain."
The reminiscence comes
Of sunless dry geraniums
And dust in crevices,
Smells of chestnuts in the streets,
And female smells in shuttered rooms,
And cigarettes in corridors
And cocktail smells in bars.”
― T.S. Eliot

“They have left the first stage of romance—the rhapsody of us. Where everything is you-me or me-you or a giddily tentative we. Now him and her are asserting themselves, each given a private, pensive depth. Within the rhapsody of us, Elijah could think, I don’t really know you, but I will. Now he is not so sure.”
― David Levithan, Are We There Yet?

“Sometimes, however, there is more than hope.
Sometimes there is reason.”
― Elizabeth Haydon, The Assassin King

“i don’t care what you see, or what you say.
path of love’s a pipe dream anyway.
my daimon turns demon from today
now i want the glory and finer things.

sell my soul, the owner, the highest bid
reap the things you sow, i’m a change my ways.
now watch me transform to a higher place
your love’s a thorn, the roses now decay.

so i—
sign on the dotted line
Satan’s paper signed
Lucifer’s bonfire warming up my desire

i want the vanity —
i want the money, the women
this is the bourgeoise rhapsody”
― Soroosh Shahrivar, Letter 19

“Ruby describes the decorations at the banquet. 'It was like little gardens of rhapsody on every table. It was divine.”
― Lynne Branard, The Art of Arranging Flowers

“This is the fiction that I’m referring to as rhapsody, this stitching of mimetic representation, oneiric imagery, ludic rules, allegoric morals, satiric critique and diegetic story into complex quiltings of narrative.”
― Hal Duncan, Rhapsody: Notes on Strange Fictions

“Every dream has a deadline.
Then a good dreamer must ignore the deadline.”
― Mahir Pradana

“Creative writing performs many functions. To the readers, it enlightens, enriches, entertains and informs. To the writer, creative writing is rhapsodic.”
― Adewale Joel, Learn Creative Writing: A guide to writing perfect drafts