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Arthur O'Shaughnessy Quotes:

Arthur O'Shaughnessy quotes

Ocupation: Poet

Life: March 14, 1844 - January 30, 1881

Birthday: March 14

Death: January 30

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We are the music-makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea-breakers, And sitting by desolate streams. World-losers and world-forsakers, Upon whom the pale moon gleams; Yet we are the movers and shakers, Of the world forever, it seems.

source: - 'Ode" l. 7 (1874)

Topics: Life, Music, Dream, Lone, Desolate

quote we are the music makers and we are the dreamers of dreams wandering by lone sea breakers arthur o shaughnessy Quotes

A breath of our inspiration Is the life of each generation; A wondrous thing of our dreaming Unearthly, impossible seeming — The soldier, the king, and the peasant Are working together in one, Till our dream shall become their present, And their work in the world be done.

Topics: Dream, Kings, Inspiration

O precious is the pause between the winds that come and go, / And sweet the silence of the shores between the ebb and flow.

Topics: Sweet, Wind, Ebb And Flow

We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.

Topics: Inspirational, Music, Dream, Notes Music, Moon And Stars

A breath of our inspiration / Is the life of each generation.

Topics: Inspiration, Generations, Breaths

For each age is a dream that is dying, Or one that is coming to birth.

Topics: Dream, Time, Dying

We, in the ages lying In the buried past of the earth, Built Nineveh with our sighing, And Babel itself with our mirth; And o'erthrew them with prophesying To the old of the new world's worth; For each age is a dream that is dying, Or one that is coming to birth.

Topics: Dream, Lying, Past, Babel

But on one man's soul it hath broken, / A light that doth not depart; / And his look, or a word he hath spoken, / Wrought flame in another man's heart.

Topics: Heart, Men, Light

We are the music-makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams... Yet we are the movers and shakers of the world for ever, it seems.

Topics: Life, Dream, World

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