Hum Quotes
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Mine be a cot beside the hill;
A beehive's hum shall soothe my ear; A willowy brook that turns a mill, With many a fall, shall linger near. |
More Hum Quotes
Now air is hushed, save where the weak-eyed bat With short shrill shriek flits by on leathern wing, Or where the beetle winds His small but sullen horn, As oft he rises midst the twilight path, Against the pilgrim borne in heedless hum.
william collins— 1747 Odes on Several Descriptive and Allegoric Subjects,'Ode to Evening', l.9-14.
The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.
john milton— Hymn, stanza 19, line 173.
I live not in myself, but I become Portion of that around me; and to me High mountains are a feeling, but the hum Of human cities torture.
lord byron— Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto III (1816), Stanza 72.
I can hum a fugue of which I've heard the music's din afore, And whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense Pinafore.
Sir W(illiam) S(chwenck) Gilbert— 1879 The Major-General's song, The Pirates of Penzance, act1.
[Music] a pederast might hum when raping a choirboy. Prynne
Marcel Proust— Of Faure ' s Romances sans paroles. Quoted in Musical Quarterly, 1924.
I live not in myself, but I become Portion of that around me; and to me, High mountains are a feeling, but the hum Of human cities torture.
Rochdale— 1812-18 Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, canto 3, stanza 72.
Now air is hushed, save where the weak-eyed bat,With short shrill shriek flits by on leathern wing,Or where the beetle windsHis small but sullen horn,As oft he rises 'midst the twilight path,Against the pilgrim borne in heedless hum.
william collins— line 9.
Our aim is to create an island of tranquility in our own country which, amid the joyful hum of arts and crafts, would be welcome to anyone who professes faith in Ruskin and Morris.
— Declaration in work programme of Wiener Werkstätte (Vienna Workshop, 1903)
You put out a funny podcast, you talk about bak chor mee. I will say mee siam mai hum.
lee hsien loong— National Day Rally, 2006
One's condition on marijuana is always existential. One can feel the importance of each moment and how it is changing one. One feels one's being, one becomes aware of the enormous apparatus of nothingness — the hum of a hi-fi set, the emptiness of a pointless interruption, one becomes aware of the war between each of us, how the nothingness in each of us seeks to attack the being of others, how our being in turn is attacked by the nothingness in others.
norman mailer— Interview in Writers at Work Third Series (1967) edited by George Plimpton
Towered cities please us then, And the busy hum of men.
john milton— Line 117. (L'Allegro (1631))
Go to sleep, you stunning sky, gently creep, cunning by A quiet hum is amplified by your thumb that you suck dry A hundred raging waters snare the lonely sigh Hold your breath and clasp at Cassiopeia.
joanna newsom— Cassiopeia
[Music] a pederast might hum when raping a choirboy.
Marcel Proust— Of Fauré's Romances sans paroles Op. 17, as quoted in Orledge Gabriel Fauré (1979), p. 48
As with other modern artists, his readings provided not an organized outlook but a kind of metaphysical hum that surrounded his mental operations.
Harold Rosenberg— "Newman: Meaning in Abstract Art II" (p. 58)
Home from Guatemala, back at the Waldorf. This arrival in the wild country of the soul, All approaches gone, being completely there, Where the wild poem is a substitute For the woman one loves or ought to love, One wild rhapsody a fake for another. You touch the hotel the way you touch moonlight Or sunlight and you hum and the orchestra Hums and you say "The world in a verse, A generation sealed, men remoter than mountains, Women invisible in music and motion and color," After that alien, point-blank, green and actual Guatemala.
wallace stevens— "Arrival at the Waldorf"
Mine be a cot beside the hill; A beehive's hum shall soothe my car; A willowy brook, that turns a mill, With many a fall, shall linger near.
samuel rogers— Samuel Rogers, A Wish.
But 'midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, To hear, to see, to feel, and to possess, And roam along, the world's tired denizen, With none who bless us, none whom we can bless.
lord byron— Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto II (1812), Stanza 26.
[H]e was often interrupted by the deep hum of his audience; and when, after preaching out the hour-glass, which in those days was part of the furniture of the pulpit, he held it up in his hand, the congregation clamorously encouraged him to go on till the sand had run off once more.
— Macaulay, "History of England," II., 177, on the sermons of Bishop Burnet; reported in James William Norton-Kyshe, Dictionary of Legal Quotations (1904), p. 233, n. 1.
Listen! O, listen! Here ever hum the golden bees Underneath full-blossoined trees, At once with glowing fruit and flowers crowned.
james russell lowell— James Russell Lowell, The Sirens, line 94.
Twilight's soft dews steal o'er the village-green, With magic tints to harmonize the scene Stilled is the hum that through the hamlet broke When round the nuns of their ancient oak The peasants flocked to hear the minstrel play, And games and carols closed the busy day.
samuel rogers— Samuel Rogers, Pleasures of Memory, Pt I, line 1.
The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs thro' the arched roof in words deceiving.
john milton— John Milton, Hymn on Christ's Nativity, line 173.
From camp to camp through the foul womb of night The hum of either army stilly sounds.
— Act IV. Chorus, line 4. (Henry V (c. 1599))
Towered cities please us then, And the busy hum of men.
john milton— John Milton, L'Allegro, line 117.
That undefined and mingled hum, Voice of the desert never dumb!
james hogg— James Hogg, Verses to Lady Anne Scott
Hark! I hear the tramp of thousands, And of armèd men the hum; Lo, a nation's hosts have gathered Round the quick alarming drum Saying, Come, Freemen, Come! Ere your heritage be wasted, Said the quick alarming drum.
bret harte— Bret Harte, The Rèveille.
The Bodhisattva of compassion, Avalokiteshvara who is called in Tibetan, Chenresi [often spelled Chenresig or Chenresik] is said to have given a special mantra to Nagarjuna who left it to Lion-face Dakini to transmit to Padmasambhava, whose activity confirmed Buddhism as the predominant religion in Tibet. Tibetan Buddhist Mantra Om Mani Padme hum in Sanskrit
— Alex Studholme (U. of Cambridge) on the Origins of Om Mani Padme Hum in the Karandavyuha Sutra and the relation of Buddhist mantra and Hindu (Shivaite) practice quoted in "What is a mantra?"
Whoever recites the first four verses of Suratul Baqarah, Ayatul Kursi (verse 255 of Suratul Baqarah) along with the two verses which follow it (verses 256 and 257 up to ‘Wa hum Fiha Khalidun’), and the last three verses (of this same Surah) will not see any bad or sorrow in his life or his wealth; Satan will not come near him; and he will not forget the Qur’an.
— Thawabul A’mal, Page 234 (Shi'ite Hadith)
