Quotes tagged ‘Pastoral’

(4 total)

“I go to the field where wild The lily grows, fearless, To the inaccessible Primordial vault Of the forest.”

“Next year we will sit on the porch and count migrating birds. Children on vacation will play catch between the house and the fields. Red grapes will ripen till the evening, and will be served chilled to the table. You will yet see, you will yet see, how good it will be next year. Next year we will s…”

— Ehud Manor, ahbjewishcenter.org

“Life would have seemed an exquisite thing to me if only I had been free to spend it, hour after hour, with her, to go with her to the stream, to the cow, to the train, to be always at her side, to feel that I was known to her, had my place in her thoughts.”

— Marcel Proust, amazon.com

“Young girls and young men, in all their light-hearted innocence, carried the kind, sweet fruit away in their woven baskets, and in their midst a youth with a singing lyre played charmingly upon it for them, and sang the beautiful song for Linos in a light voice, and they followed him, and with singi…”

— Homer, amazon.com