„I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember, the place is so beautiful. One almost expects the people to sing instead of speaking. It is all — the colleges I mean — like an opera.“

— W.B. Yeats

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„I don't expect you to understand anything I'm telling you. But I know you will remember this — that nothing good ever ends. If it did, there would be no people in the world — no life at all, anywhere. And the world is full of people and full of wonderful life.“
— William Saroyan
„No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.“
— W. H. Auden
„I love thee and thou art so lovely and so wonderful and so beautiful and it does such things to me to be with thee that I feel as though I wanted to die when I am loving thee.“
— Ernest Hemingway
„Anything I can sing, I call a song. Anything I can't sing, I call a poem.“
— Bob Dylan