“As the call, so the echo”
Proverb
“The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.”
Carl Sandburg
“Translation is at best an echo.”
George Borrow
“'Twas whispered in heaven, 'twas muttered in hell, / And echo caught faintly the sound as it fell; / On the confines of earth 'twas permitted to rest, / And the depths of the ocean its presence confessed.”
Catherine Maria Fanshawe
“Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.”
Mother Teresa of Calcutta
“Better to be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
