364 Quotes About Ears

No music is so charming to my ear as the requests of my friends, and the supplications of those in want of my assistance.

I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of earth, subtleties of major and minor chord that the wind strikes upon the tree branches. Have you ever heard the earth breathe?

Advice is more agreeable in the mouth than in the ear.

God speaks in the language you know best - not through your ears, but through your circumstances.

Everyone said to Vincent van Gogh, "You can't be a great painter, you only have one ear." And you know what he said? "I can't hear you.

The reader's ear must adjust down from loud life to the subtle, imaginary sounds of the written word. An ordinary reader picking up a book can't yet hear a thing; it will take half an hour to pick up the writing's modulations, its ups and downs and louds and softs.

An ear can break a human heart As quickly as a spear, We wish the ear had not a heart So dangerously near.

Writing poetry makes you intensely conscious of how words sound, both aloud and inside the head of the reader. You learn the weight of words and how they sound to the ear.

An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.