Susanna Clarke Quotes

It May Be Laid Down As A General Rule That If A Man Begins To Sing, No One Will Take Any Notice Of His Song Except His Fellow Human Beings. This Is True Even If His Song Is Surpassingly Beautiful. Other Men May Be In Raptures At His Skill, But The Rest Of Creation Is, By And Large, Unmoved. Perhaps A Cat Or A Dog May Look At Him; His Horse, If It Is An Exceptionally Intelligent Beast, May Pause In Cropping The Grass, But That Is The Extent Of It. But When The Fairy Sang, The Whole World Listened To Him. Stephen Felt Clouds Pause In Their Passing; He Felt Sleeping Hills Shift And Murmur; He Felt Cold Mists Dance. He Understood For The First Time That The World Is Not Dumb At All, But Merely Waiting For Someone To Speak To It In A Language It Understands. In The Fairy's Song The Earth Recognized The Names By Which It Called Itself.

Susanna Clarke Quotes: It May Be Laid Down As A General Rule That If A Man Begins To Sing, No One Will Take

Susanna Clarke Quotes: It May Be Laid Down As A General Rule That If A Man Begins To Sing, No One Will Take

Susanna Clarke Quotes: It May Be Laid Down As A General Rule That If A Man Begins To Sing, No One Will Take

Susanna Clarke Quotes: It May Be Laid Down As A General Rule That If A Man Begins To Sing, No One Will Take

Susanna Clarke Quotes: It May Be Laid Down As A General Rule That If A Man Begins To Sing, No One Will Take

Susanna Clarke Quotes: It May Be Laid Down As A General Rule That If A Man Begins To Sing, No One Will Take

Susanna Clarke Quotes: It May Be Laid Down As A General Rule That If A Man Begins To Sing, No One Will Take

Susanna Clarke Quotes: It May Be Laid Down As A General Rule That If A Man Begins To Sing, No One Will Take

Susanna Clarke Quotes: It May Be Laid Down As A General Rule That If A Man Begins To Sing, No One Will Take

Susanna Clarke Quotes: It May Be Laid Down As A General Rule That If A Man Begins To Sing, No One Will Take

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