quotations about Arcadia
Ye, O Arcadians, will sing my woes upon your hills; only Arcadians know how to sing! How softly shall my bones repose if, in future days, your pipes should tell my loves.
VIRGIL
Eclogues
What, know you not, old man (quoth he)--
Your hair is white, your face is wise--
That Love must kiss that mortal's eyes
Who hopes to see fair Arcady?
H.C. BUNNER
The Way to Arcady
Lovely lady of Arcadia
Promise you will wait for me
In your arms I found my Shangri-La
And it's where I long to be
Lost in love eternally
DEMIS ROUSSOS
"Lovely Lady of Arcadia", Goodbye, My Love, Goodbye
Out of all the concepts of paradise, Arcadia is unique in that it originates neither from myth nor from the Bible, but from literature itself.
WOLFGANG ISER
Prospecting: From Reader Response to Literary Anthropology
In Arcadia ego
Twisted the rose did grow
Sucked up the sap of this world
Blood red the petals pearled
With some wisdom absurd
BABYLON WHORES
"In Arcadia Ego"
You've got swamp eyes dear, irises unclear
Two black holes of jade it's Arcadia
We are laughing fiends, dancing evergreens
Hope this never fades, this Arcadia
DIZZY
"Arcadia", Baby Teeth
Feign'd Arcadian scenes.
WILLIAM COWPER
Hope
And they will war, 'mid wondrous elfin-sights:
Such may I love. The shuddering forest lights
Of green Arcadia do not hide, I trow,
Such men, such hearts. But, uncouth hunter, thou
Know'st naught of this.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
The Island of Statues
A primrose path to stagnant pools, to an Arcadia of thistles, and a Paradise of mud.
EDWIN PERCY WHIPPLE
Character and Characteristic Men
He comes to us from Arcadia through the trees
The rush of his force felt upon the breeze
He comes on hooves of goat
He comes with songs that float on the wind
INKUBUS SUKKUBUS
"Song to Pan"
And I'm lving in a factory
That's a million dollar flat
I'm not looking for arcadia
Cause it's never coming back
MICK JAGGER
"Too Far Gone"
Arcadia is perhaps a unique example of the transformation of a real country into a "spiritual landscape."
RICHARD STONEMAN
A Literary Companion to Travel in Greece
Did you see the light show?
Did you feel the falling snow?
Feel it on your skin?
Dancing to Arcadia
SIMPLE MINDS
"Utopia"
Surely in Arcadia, whether my passion
Were for Amyntas or for Phyllis or another
(Since violets and hyacinths are dark,
What would it matter that Amyntas is dark?)
My love and I would be together there
Among the willows, beneath the sheltering vines.
VIRGIL
Eclogues
Arcadia is a persisting human idea and yearning, a state of mind.
VERNON MINOR
The Death of the Baroque and the Rhetoric of Good Taste
In Arcadia ego
How fast the years did go
And how bitter is the wind
Blowing from shores of Arcady
BABYLON WHORES
"In Arcadia Ego"
And those Arcadian scenes that Maro sings,
And Sidney, warbler of poetic prose.
WILLIAM COWPER
The Task
The Arcadians were chestnut-eaters.
ALCAEUS
fragment
All men know that Arcadia is almost the only country in which the children, even from their most tender age, are taught to sing in measure the songs and hymns that are composed in honour of their gods and heroes; and that afterwards, when they have learned the music of Timotheus and Philoxenus, they assemble once in every year in the public theatres, at the feast of Bacchus, and there dance with emulation to the sound of flutes; and celebrate, according to their proper age, the children those that are called the puerile, and the young men the manly games. And even in their private feasts and meetings, they are never known to employ any hired bands of music for their entertainment; but each man is himself obliged to sing in turn.
POLYBIUS
Histories
Upon that storied marble cast thine eye.
The scene commands a moralising sigh.
E'en in Arcadia's blessed Elysian plains,
amidst the laughing nymphs and sportive swains.
MARDUK
"Life's Emblem"