Elysium Quotes

17 quotes by 13 authors

Fit for kings, formal gardens afford an earthly Elysium and the odd impression that we mere men might actually control nature for a time. — Ezra Pound
Poets need be in no degree jealous of the geologists. The stony science, with buried creations for its domains, and half an eternity charged with… — Hugh Miller
If a man knows the law, find out, though he live in a pine shanty, and resort to him. And if a man can pipe… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The first cup moistens my lips and throat; The second cup breaks my loneliness; The third cup searches my barren entrail but to find therein… — Lu Tong
Who, as they sung, would take the prison'd soul And lap it in Elysium. — John Milton
There's a myth among amateurs, optimists and fools that beyond a certain level of achievement, famous artists retire to some kind of Elysium where criticism… — Mark Matousek
When Cameron's Conservatives come to power it will be a golden age for cyclists and an Elysium of cycle lanes, bike racks, and sharia law… — Boris Johnson
What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross What thou lov'st well shall not be reft from thee What thou lov'st well is thy… — Ezra Pound
'District 9' was a singular anti-Apartheid metaphor, and 'Elysium' is a more general metaphor about immigration and how the First World and Third World meet.… — Neill Blomkamp
'District 9', 'Elysium' and 'Chappie' were all born out of some visual concept first. 'Chappie' is the imagery, because I think I'm a visual person… — Neill Blomkamp
I think that 'Elysium' the movie is unrealistic, with the space station and everything. I think 'Elysium' the metaphor is completely realistic: it's exactly where… — Neill Blomkamp
There's no question that how Johannesburg operates is what made me interested in the idea of wealth discrepancy. 'Elysium' could be a metaphor for just… — Neill Blomkamp
In imagination she sailed over storied seas that wash the distant shining shores of "faÃ«ry lands forlorn," where lost Atlantis and Elysium lie, with the… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
Vlad had found himself longing to encounter those of his own kind, to travel to the streets of Elysia-that far away world, but after a… — Heather Brewer
Artemis smiled. "You have done well, my lieutenant. You have made me proud, and all those Hunters who perished in my service will never be… — Rick Riordan
But under the beaming, constant and almost vertical sun of Virginia, shade is our Elysium. In the absence of this no beauty of the eye… — Thomas Jefferson
Souls of poets dead and gone, What Elysium have ye known, Happy field or mossy cavern, Choicer than the Mermaid Tavern? Have ye tippled drink… — John Keats

Who Wrote These Elysium Quotes

13 authors contributed a total of 17 Elysium Quotes as follows: