Miles Franklin Quote

If the souls of lives were voiced in music, there are some that none but a great organ could express, others the clash of a full orchestra, a few to which nought but the refined and exquisite sadness of a violin could do justice. Many might be likened unto common pianos, jangling and out of tune, and some to the feeble piping of a penny whistle, and mine could be told with a couple of nails in a rusty tin-pot.


My Brilliant Career, with a Pref. by Henry Lawson (ed. 1901)


If the souls of lives were voiced in music, there are some that none but a great organ could express, others the clash of a full orchestra, a few to...

If the souls of lives were voiced in music, there are some that none but a great organ could express, others the clash of a full orchestra, a few to...

If the souls of lives were voiced in music, there are some that none but a great organ could express, others the clash of a full orchestra, a few to...

If the souls of lives were voiced in music, there are some that none but a great organ could express, others the clash of a full orchestra, a few to...