Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Poet, Novelist
"The music soars within the little lark, And the lark soars."
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Larks
31 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Robert Browning
Poet, Playwright
"God is in his Heaven, all's right with the world."
Victor Hugo
Novelist, Poet
"The owl goes not into the nest of the lark."
William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"What: is the jay more precious than the lark because his feathers are more beautiful?"
Jerry Reed
Musician, Songwriter, Actor
"Smokey and The Bandit was just a lark. All we did was run up and down those Georgia roads wrecking cars and having the time of our life."
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"Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better than all treasures That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground!"
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"Film is a lark to me - thank God I don't have to make a living from it."
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"Dost thou love hawking? Thou hast hawks will soar Above the morning lark."
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"It was a bit of a lark when I agreed to do [Smokey and the Bandit], and I knew we'd have fun if we could get Jackie Gleason."
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"Teach me, O lark! with thee to greatly rise, to exalt my soul and lift it to the skies."
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"I'm very crafty! One time I made a television set out of a cardboard box - Everybody thought it was a lark! This was the beginning of a love affair with the arts."
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"Like the lark that soars in the air, first singing, then silent, content with the last sweetness that satiates it, such seemed to me that image, the imprint of the Eternal Pleasure."
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"Myriads of daisies have shone forth in flower Near the lark's nest, and in their natural hour Have passed away; less happy than the one That by the unwilling ploughshare died to prove The tender charm of poetry and love."
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"What a lark! What a plunge!"
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"My curiosity sister of larks."
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