Famous quotes containing the words elysian fields, elysian, fields and/or performed:
“I am dead: dead, but in the Elysian fields.”
—Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881)
“I am dead: dead, but in the Elysian fields.”
—Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881)
“Luxurious Man, to bring his Vice in use,
Did after him the World seduce:
And from the fields the Flow’rs and Plants allure,”
—Andrew Marvell (1621–1678)
“Poetry is the only life got, the only work done, the only pure product and free labor of man, performed only when he has put all the world under his feet, and conquered the last of his foes.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)