Festival Poster Quotes
2023
If music be the food of love, play on. — William Shakespeare
2022
Sweet was the sound when oft at evening's close, Up yonder hill the village murmur rose. — Oliver Goldsmith
2019
Be curious, not judgemental. — Walt Whitman
2017
There is no end to grief, that's how we know there's no end to love. — Bono
2016
Oh, to capture just one drop of all the ecstasy that swept that afternoon, to paint that love upon a white balloon. — David Bowie
2015
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened. — Thomas Hardy
2014
Tyger, Tyger, burning bright, in the forest of the night; What immortal hand or eye, could frame thy fearful symmetry? — William Blake
2013
Love to faults is always blind, Always is to joy inclin'd, Lawless, wing'd, and unconfirm'd, And breaks all chains from every mind. — William Blake
2011
For everything that lives in holy, life delights in life, Because the soul of sweet delight can never be defil'd. — William Blake
2010
How sweet, to such a place, on such a night, From halls with beauty and festival a-glare, To come distract and, stretched on the cool turf, Yield to some fond, improbably delight. — Alan Seeger
2009
In the height of summer, at the time of solstice, moon mad, sun begotten — we acclaim the glory of life with ungrudging sense. — Llewelyn Powys
2004
It is an easy thing to see a god on every wind and a blessing on every blast ... Thus could I sing and thus rejoice, but it is not so with me. I will arise explore these dens and find that deep pulsation. Perhaps this is the night of prophecy ... When thought is closed in caves, Then love shall show its root even in the deepest hell. — William Blake
2003
On with the dance! Let joy be unconfined; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet to chase the glowing hours with flying feed. — Byron
1995
And flowers and trees and beasts and men receive, Comfort in morning joy in the noon day. And we are put on earth a little space, That we may learn to bear the beams of love. — William Blake
1994
In the height of summer, at the time of solstice — moon-mad, sun-begotten — we acclaim the glory of life with ungrudging senses. — Llewelyn Powys
1993
Those who have once been happy are for aye Our of Destruction's reach. — John Masefield
1992
For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life, Because the soul of sweet delight can never be defil'd. — William Blake