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  • Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.

  • I will point ye out the right path of a virtuous and noble Education; laborious indeed at first ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect, and melodious sounds on every side, that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming.

    Education   Path   Firsts  
    John Locke, John Milton (1830). “Some thoughts concerning education”, p.275
  • Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.

    Music   Wisdom   Heaven  
    'A Song for St Cecilia's Day'
  • But would you sing, and rival Orpheus' strain. The wond'ring forests soon should dance again; The moving mountains hear the powerful call. And headlong streams hand listening in their fall!

    Powerful   Moving   Fall  
  • And I think that it is certainly possible that the objective universe can be affected by the poet. I mean, you recall Orpheus made the trees and the stones dance and so forth, and this is something which is in almost all primitive cultures. I think it has some definite basis to it. I'm not sure what. It's like telekinesis, which I know very well on a pinball machine is perfectly possible.

    Mean   Thinking   Tree  
    Jack Spicer (2010). “The House That Jack Built: The Collected Lectures of Jack Spicer”, p.11, Wesleyan University Press
  • A glorious place, a glorious age, I tell you! A very Neon renaissance - And the myths that actually touched you at that time - not Hercules, Orpheus, Ulysses and Aeneas - but Superman, Captain Marvel, and Batman.

    Time   Aeneas   Age  
    Tom Wolfe (2008). “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test”, p.46, Macmillan
  • Mortimer's face twisted when the Piper pressed his knife against his ribs. Oh yes, he's obviously made the wrong enemies in this story, thought Orpheus. And the wrong friends. But that was high-minded heroes for you. Stupid.

    Stupid   Hero   Knives  
    Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkdeath”, p.472, Chicken House
  • I lately met with an old volume from a London bookshop, containing the Greek Minor Poets, and it was a pleasure to read once moreonly the words Orpheus, Linus, Musæus,--those faint poetic sounds and echoes of a name, dying away on the ears of us modern men; and those hardly more substantial sounds, Mimnermus, Ibycus, Alcæus, Stesichorus, Menander. They lived not in vain. We can converse with these bodiless fames without reserve or personality.

    Men   Echoes   Names  
    Henry David Thoreau (2017). “The Most Alive is the Wildest – Thoreau’s Complete Works on Living in Harmony with the Nature: Walden, Walking, Night and Moonlight, The Highland Light, A Winter Walk, The Maine Woods, A Walk to Wachusett, The Landlord, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, Autumnal Tints, Wild Apples…”, p.393, e-artnow
  • Yet the story of Orpheus, it occurs to me, is not just about the desire of the living to resuscitate the dead but about the ways in which the dead drag us along into their shadowy realm because we cannot let them go. So we follow them into the Underworld, descending, descending, until one day we turn and make our way back.

  • At times discreetly, at times disgustingly, I yielded to the most fatal temptation whenever I could no longer bear it: as a result of impatience, Orpheus lost Eurydice; as a result of impatience, I lost myself.

  • Orpheus with his lute made trees, And the mountain tops that freeze, Bow themselves, when he did sing; To his music, plants and flowers Ever sprung; as sun and showers There had made a lasting spring. Every thing that heard him play, Even the billows of the sea, Hung their heads, and then lay by. In sweet music is such art, Killing care and grief of heart Fall asleep, or hearing, die.

    Sweet   Art   Spring  
    'Henry VIII' (1613) act 3, sc. 1, l. 3
  • So to the lyre of Orpheus they struck with their oars, The furious water of the sea, and the surge broke into waves. Here and there the dark brine gushed with foam, Roaring terribly through the strength of the mighty men.

    Dark   Men   Sea  
  • Not only was Thebes built by the music of an Orpheus; but without the music of some inspired Orpheus was no city ever built, no work that man glories in ever done.

    Men   Cities   Done  
    Thomas Carlyle (1871). “The Collected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.161
  • Music can noble hints impart, Engender fury, kindle love, With unsuspected eloquence can move, And manage all the man with secret art.

    Music   Art   Moving  
    Joseph Addison (1868). “The Works of Joseph Addison”, p.425
  • Miserable Orpheus who, turning to lose his Eurydice, beholds her for the first time as well as the last.

    "The Unquiet Grave". Book by Cyril Connolly, 1944.
  • Before all, be real. Only the truth gives to the word the Orpheus' Lyre power.

  • Mortimer's face twisted when the Piper pressed his knife against his ribs. Oh yes, he's obviously made the wrong enemies in this story, thought Orpheus. And the wrong friends. But that was high-minded heroes for you. Stupid.

    Stupid   Hero   Knives  
    Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkdeath”, p.472, Chicken House
  • Human intelligence discovered a way of perpetuating itself, one not only more durable and more resistant than architecture, but also simpler and easier. Architecture was dethroned. The stone letters of Orpheus gave way to the lead letters of Gutenburg. The book will kill the edifice.

    Book   Letters   Stones  
    Victor Hugo (1988). “The Hunchback of Notre Dame: 2”, Signet Classics
  • Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing Such notes as, warbled to the string, Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek.

    Iron   Soul   Tears  
    'Il Penseroso' (1645) l. 105
  • In sweet music is such art: killing care and grief of heart fall asleep, or hearing, die.

    Music   Sweet   Art  
    'Henry VIII' (1613) act 3, sc. 1, l. 3
  • Husband, we talked about this," Persephone chided. "You can't go around incinerating every hero. Besides, he's brave. I like that." Hades rolled his eyes. "You liked that Orpheus fellow too. Look how well that turned out.

    Husband   Hero   Eye  
  • Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below. Music can noble hints impart, Engender fury, kindle love; 40 With unsuspected eloquence can move, And manage all the man with secret art. When Orpheus strikes the trembling lyre The streams stand still, the stones admire; The listening savages advance, The world and lamb around him trip The bears in aukward measures leap, And tigers mingle in the dance The moving woods attended as he played And Rhodope was left without a shade.

    Music   Art   Moving  
    Joseph Addison, “A Song For St. CeCILIa's Day, At Oxford”
  • Had we had all the money in the world to spend and we were doing another studio movie, we probably would have jumped quickly into the Necromonger universe and done an Orpheus Descending movie there. We didn't have that kind of resource. So, we said, this time, "If not that, this time, then what is it? What does this new movie look like?" Quickly, just in talking about it very simply with Vin [Diesel] in his kitchen, we decided on a survival, left-for-dead story, where Riddick could, as a character, reclaim the animal side.

    Source: collider.com
  • What on earth can you do on this earth but catch at whatever comes near you, with both your fingers, until your fingers are broken?

    Tennessee Williams (2012). “Orpheus Descending and Suddenly Last Summer”, p.27, New Directions Publishing
  • Ghosts of melodious prophesyings rave Round every spot where trod Apollo's foot; Bronze clarions awake, and faintly bruit, Where long ago a giant battle was; And, from the turf, a lullaby doth pass In every place where infant Orpheus slept. Feel we these things? - that moment have we stept Into a sort of oneness, and our state Is like a floating spirit's. But there are Richer entanglements, enthralments far More self-destroying, leading, by degrees, To the chief intensity: the crown of these Is made of love and friendship, and sits high Upon the forehead of humanity.

    Life   Feet   Self  
    John Keats, “Endymion: Book I”
  • The film Black Orpheus is one of my favorite films of all time, which is set in Carnival in Brazil.

    Black   Brazil   Film  
  • Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it

  • Happy indeed the poet of whom, like Orpheus, nothing is known but an immortal name! Happy next, perhaps, the poet of whom, like Homer, nothing is known but the immortal works. The more the merely human part of the poet remains a mystery, the more willing is the reverence given to his divine mission.

    Names   Next   Mystery  
  • When your father directed your mother in 'Orpheus Descending,' the kid's going to be a theater nerd.

    Mother   Father   Kids  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • So Orpheus did for his owne bride, So I unto my selfe alone will sing, The woods shall to me answer and my Eccho ring.

    Singing   Woods   Answers  
    Edmund Spenser (1840). “The Works of Edmund Spenser: With Observations on His Life and Writings”, p.420
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