(60 quotes found)
“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
“'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
“Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.”
Carl Sandburg
“Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom.”
Wallace Stevens
“Better to be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Translation is at best an echo.”
George Borrow
“Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.”
Don Marquis
“The presidency is a huge echo chamber magnifying every little thing he does.”
Stephen Hess
“As the call, so the echo”
Proverb
