Top 9 Quotes & Sayings by Arthur O'Shaughnessy

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Last updated on November 18, 2024.

Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy was a British poet and herpetologist. Of Irish descent, he was born in London. He is most remembered for his poem "Ode", from his 1874 collection Music and Moonlight, which begins with the words "We are the music makers, / And we are the dreamers of dreams", and has been set to music by several composers including Edward Elgar, Zoltán Kodály, Alfred Reed and, more recently, 808 State Aphex Twin.

British - Poet | March 14, 1844 - January 30, 1881

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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.

Arthur O'Shaughnessy

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

Arthur O'Shaughnessy

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

Arthur O'Shaughnessy

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.

Arthur O'Shaughnessy

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.

Arthur O'Shaughnessy

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.

Arthur O'Shaughnessy

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

Arthur O'Shaughnessy

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.

Arthur O'Shaughnessy

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

Arthur O'Shaughnessy

Top 9 Quotes & Sayings by Arthur O'Shaughnessy

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