Scene

Famous quotes containing the word scene:

“How many ages hence
Shall this our lofty scene be acted over
In states unborn and accents yet unknown!”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“The poem of the mind in the act of finding
What will suffice. It has not always had
To find: the scene was set; it repeated what
Was in the script.
Then the theatre was changed
To something else. Its past was a souvenir.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

“‘Twas that friends, the belov’d of my bosom, were near,
Who made every dear scene of enchantment more dear,”
—Thomas Moore (1779–1852)