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Quotes by Donovan - (17 quotes)

Donovan - From the Brother/Sisterhood category:

Brother sun and sister moon, / I seldom see you, I can't hear your tune; / Preoccupied with selfish misery. / Brother wind and sister air, / Open my eyes to visions pure and fair, / That I might see the glories around me. (Donovan)

Donovan - From the Children category:

- Children of the World lyrics...
Children believe in friends, / Children believe in having friends / Children believe in friends. (Donovan)

Donovan - From the Colour category:

They call me mellow yellow... (Donovan)

Donovan - From the Confession category:

Here I stand acting like a silly clown would, / I don't know why / Would anybody like to try / The changes I'm going through? (Donovan)

Donovan - From the Depression category:

From these broken days of anguish, some day soon I'm gonna rise, / I'm gonna raise my head to Heaven, I'm gonna fly the starry skies. (Donovan)

Donovan - From the Dreams category:

My songs are merely dreams visiting my mind / We talk a while by a crooked stile, / You're lucky to catch a few. (Donovan)

Donovan - From the Education category:

- Age of Treason, lyrics...
I flunk my way to college, a looser kind of school / But we bobbed and played time arty, feeling cool / Just to live an artists diggin' the ravin' scene / Reading Kerouac and Ginsberg well deuced. (Donovan)

Donovan - From the Happiness category:

Happiness runs in a circular motion / Thought is like a little boat upon the sea. / Everybody is a part of everything anyway, / You can have everything if you let yourself be. (Donovan)

Donovan - From the Humour category:

-A Funny Man lyrics
I never saw a rose with such a funny looking smell. (Donovan)

Donovan - From the Life category:

Don't let appearances fool you / Life's not what the rule book tells. (Donovan)

Donovan - From the Questions category:

Little pebble upon the sand / Now you're lying here in my hand, / How many years have you been here? (Donovan)

Donovan - From the Religion category:

I am God's creature, of him I am part, / I feel his love awakening my heart. (Donovan)

Donovan - From the Seeing category:

Caterpillar sheds his skin to find a butterfly within. / First there is a mountain, then there is no mountain, then there is. (Donovan)

Donovan - From the Sleep category:

Thrown like a star in my vast sleep / I open my eyes to take a peep / To find that I was by the sea / Gazing with tranquillity. (Donovan)

Donovan - From the Thought category:

Shake off those thoughts, / They're strangling you, / Let out your human song. (Donovan)

Donovan - From the Tradition category:

Histories of ages past / Unenlightened shadows cast / Down through all eternity / The crying of humanity. (Donovan)

Donovan - From the Windows category:

When I look out my window, / Many sights to see. / And when I look in my window, / So many different people to be / That it's strange, so strange. (Donovan)