quotations about Arcadia
Lycoris, in Arcadia there are springs,
Cool as can be, and groves, and softest grass;
Together in Arcadia we would live,
And time alone could bring it to an end.
VIRGIL
Eclogues
I too was born in Arcadia.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
Travels in Italy
Devils in the night, crawling out of sight
We are side by side in Arcadia
DIZZY
"Arcadia", Baby Teeth
Both in the flower of youth, Arcadians both, equal in song and ready in response.
VIRGIL
Eclogues
I am grateful for the things
That you've tried to show me dear
But there's no Arcadia
EMMY THE GREAT
"The Easter Parade", First Love
But if Arcadia is really to serve its purpose, it must be developed.
BERNARD H. HEMMETER
"An Appeal for Support for the Arcadia Movement", The Walther League Messenger, May 1924
I envied not the happiest swain
That ever trod th' Arcadian plain.
TOBIAS SMOLLETT
Ode to Leven Water
You were tryna make it work
You were sleeping in my shirt
Arcadia
Sometimes things don't come full circle
THE KITE STRING TANGLE
"Arcadia"
Arcadia is round about, and mirth is leaping from the merry strings, and feet are tripping, tripping, through the rustic dance!
EDWARD CLARENCE FARNSWORTH
"Music", Poems and Essays
Arcades ambo--id est, blackguards both.
LORD BYRON
Don Juan
Teddy steadily fell from grace
Somewhere near Arcadia
Once she overheard a voice
That she didn't hear on the radio
ELVIS COSTELLO
"Stella Hurt"
I, too, shepherd in Arcadia dwelt.
FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS
Song
Arcadia is isolate, I said. Intentioned wildness of a dead December forest Punctuates the pasturings; the pull of a Rococo wildness Aching full of fauns takes shape; the shepherdry of sleep, The dreaming Edenward, the feverings, Real shepherds with imaginary sheep.
JACK SPICER
An Ode and Arcadia
I dwell no more in Arcady,
But when the sky is blue with May,
And birds were blithe and winds are free,
I know what message is for me,
For I have been in Arcady.
LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON
Arcady