Nymphs Quotes - Page 2

• Crees que me estoy empobreciendo al alejarme de los hombres, pero en mi soledad he tejido para mí una red de seda o crisálida, y, como una ninfa, pronto brotará una criatura más perfecta, apta para una sociedad más elevada.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wisdom, Loneliness, Men

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.173, Courier Corporation

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• Apresúrate, ninfa, y trae contigo bromas y alegría juvenil, ocurrencias, chistes y artimañas desenfadadas, asentimientos y sonrisas, como las que cuelgan de las mejillas de Hebe y aman vivir en sus hoyuelos.

  John Milton

  Sports, Laughter, And Love

  John Milton, John Hunter (1864). "Milton's Comus, L'allegro, and Il Penseroso: With Numerous Illustrative Notes &c", p.59

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• Quips and Cranks and wanton Wiles, Nods and Becks and wreathèd Smiles.

  John Milton

  Wreaths, Dimples, Crank

  'L'Allegro' (1645) l. 25

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• Running, close companion to death, summons us to the most vivid acts of life. Our ancestors (we have forgotten) ran for food and for love, love and lust. For us, a prime symbol of sexuality is the automobile. For the ancients it was the chase, the foot race. Satyr and nymph, maiden and god, hot pursuit. The mythic hunters, Diana and Atalanta, available only to the males, men or gods, who could outrun them; death to all others.

  George Leonard

  Correr, Hombres, Carrera

  George Leonard (2001). “The Ultimate Athlete”, p.178, North Atlantic Books

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• La creencia se agita en el firmamento como trozos de arcilla que caen en espiral en el torno de un alfarero. Así es como se crean los dioses, por ejemplo. Es evidente que deben ser creados por sus propios creyentes, porque un breve resumen de la vida de la mayoría de los dioses sugiere que sus orígenes ciertamente no podrían ser divinos. Suelen hacer exactamente las cosas que la gente haría si pudiera, sobre todo en lo que se refiere a ninfas, lluvias doradas y la derrota de sus enemigos.

  Terry Pratchett

  People, Enemy, Clay

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• I would love to be erased from our association with Pearl Jam or the Nymphs and other first time offenders.

  Kurt Cobain

  Jam, Pearls, Association

  "Pages From Kurt Cobain's 'Journals' Published" by Jon Wiederhorn, www.mtv.com. October 21, 2002.

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• But I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks, Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass; I, that am rudely stamped, and want love's majesty To strut before a wanton ambling nymph.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Glasses, Want

  'Richard III' (1591) act 1, sc. 1, l. 9

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• ¿Escaso? Nena, yo inventé la esmirriada. Escuálido es el nuevo chisporrotear caliente.

  Rick Riordan

  Baby, Hot, Sizzling

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• Beauties, when disposed to sleep,
  Should from the eye of keen inspector keep:
  The lovely nymph who would her swain surprise,
  May close her mouth, but not conceal her eyes;
  Sleep from the fairest face some beauty takes,
  And all the homely features homelier makes.

  George Crabbe

  Sleep, Eye, Lovely

  George Crabbe, John Crabbe (1834). “The poetical works of the Rev. George Crabbe: in eight volumes”, p.48

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• Oh Dios mío, ¡soy tan increíble!" Leo bramó. "¡Tan increíble!" le gritó Eco. "Es gracioso", aventuró una ninfa. "Y lindo, en una forma escuálida", dijo otra. "¿Escuálido?" preguntó Leo. "Nena, yo inventé la esmirriada. La esmirriada es la nueva y ardiente.

  Rick Riordan

  Cute, Baby, Echoes

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• Come boy, and pour for me a cup Of old Falernian. Fill it up With wine, strong, sparkling, bright, and clear; Our host decrees no water here. Let dullards drink the Nymph's pale brew, The sluggish thin their blood with dew. For such pale stuff we have no use; For us the purple grape's rich juice. Begone, ye chilling water sprite; Here burning Bacchus rules tonight! Catullus, Selections From Catullus No poems can live long or please that are written by water-drinkers.

  Horace

  Strong, Wine, Boys

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• In their youth, mortals behave more like nymphs. Adulthood seems impossibly distant, let alone the enfeeblement of old age. But ponderously, inevitably, it overtakes you.

  Brandon Mull

  Age, Youth, Behave

  Brandon Mull, Brandon Dorman (2007). “Fablehaven”, p.146, Simon and Schuster

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• In my Pantheon, Pan still reigns in his pristine glory, with his ruddy face, his flowing beard, and his shaggy body, his pipe and his crook, his nymph Echo, and his chosen daughter Iambe; for the great god Pan is not dead, as was rumored. No god ever dies. Perhaps of all the gods of New England and of ancient Greece, I am most constant at his shrine.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Daughter, Echoes, Crooks

  Henry David Thoreau (2017). “HENRY DAVID THOREAU - Ultimate Collection: 6 Books, 26 Essays & 60+ Poems, Including Translations. Biographies & Letters (Illustrated): Walden, The Maine Woods, Cape Cod, A Yankee in Canada, Canoeing in the Wilderness, Civil Disobedience, Slavery in Massachusetts, Life Without Principle, Excursions, Poems of Nature, Familiar Letters…”, p.256, e-artnow

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• Ahora es pleamar y marea alta en el corazón y hora de partir. Las ninfas del mar en el rocío serán el coro ahora. ¿Qué queda por decir? Sospecha demasiada zalamería pero nunca cierres tu mente. Fue un viento afortunado el que me trajo aquí. Me voy medio dispuesta a creer que una confianza lisiada puede caminar y la rima medio verdadera es el amor.

  Seamus Heaney

  Dulce, Creer, Corazón

  Seamus Heaney (2014). "La cura en Troya: Una versión del Filoctetes de Sófocles", p.81, Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

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• Chris Colfer... he's like a... playful wood-nymph.

  Darren Criss

  Bosques

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• The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit made permanent. Nature, like the destruction of Pompeii, like the metamorphosis of a nymph into a tree, has arrested us in an accustomed movement.

  Marcel Proust

  Nature, Tree, Movement

  Marcel Proust (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Marcel Proust (Illustrated)”, p.1194, Delphi Classics

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• I love this quote when Valerian the King of the Nymphs says to his mate Shaye; "I am Valerian, leader of the nymphs. You may call me Oh God, that is what the other surface dwellers have preferred to call me".

  Gena Showalter

  Kings, Leader, May

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• What I like so much about Corot is that he can say everything with a bit of tree; and it was Corot himself that I found [back] in the museum of Naples - in the simplicity of the work of Pompeii and the Egyptians. These priestesses in their silver-grey tunics are just like Corot's nymphs.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Museums, Simplicity, Tree

  "Renoir - his life and work" by Francois Fosca, Book Club Associates/ Thames and Hudson Ltd, London, (p. 164), 1975.

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• The echo is, to some extent, an original sound, and therein is the magic and charm of it. It is not merely a repetition of what was worth repeating in the bell, but partly the voice of the wood; the same trivial words and notes sung by a wood-nymph.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Echoes, Voice, Magic

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.89, Xist Publishing

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• Es la castidad, hermano mío, la castidad; Aquella que la tiene se reviste de acero completo, Y, como una ninfa temblorosa con flechas afiladas, Puede trazar bosques inmensos, y brezales sin refugio, Colinas infames, y arenosos salvajes peligrosos; Donde, a través de los rayos sagrados de la castidad, Ningún salvaje feroz, bandido, o montañés, Se atreverá a manchar su pureza virgen.

  John Milton

  Brother, Arrows, Sacred

  John Milton (1846). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Milton: With Explanatory Notes and a Life of the Author, by H. Stebbing. To which is Prefixed Dr. Channing's Essay on the Poetical Genius of Milton”, p.410

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• No man of sense in the whole world believes in devils any more than he does in mermaids, vampires, gorgons, hydras, naiads, dryads, nymphs, fairies, the Fountain of Youth, [or] the Philosopher's Stone. . . .

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Believe, Men, Mermaid

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1125, Library of Alexandria

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• Oh, ants, my sisters, good old honeydew-seekers! From close up you are sticky and shiny and gristly; and your nymphs have parasitic red mites stuck to them. You are too intent upon your chewing and gathering to listen to me, but I tell you that despite my warm feelings I really do not like you, and I cannot feel sorry for you in any way because there are too many of you and you are not cute at all. You eat too much of my forests; you are a rebellious tribe, and I will destroy you; I will poison your nests with sweet-smelling traps.

  William T. Vollmann

  Cute, Sweet, Sorry

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• The wood nymph instructors left me in the dust. They told me not to worry about it. They'd had centuries of practice running away from lovesick gods. But still, it was a little humiliating to be slower than a tree.

  Rick Riordan

  Running, Dust, Practice

  Rick Riordan (2006). "El ladrón del rayo"

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• But if she'd realized that nine desiccated zombie nymphs would be waiting for her, she never would have come down here.

  Rick Riordan

  Waiting, Zombie, Would Be

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• I stared at him (Dionysus). "You're...you're married? But I thought you got in trouble for chasing a wood nymph-

  Rick Riordan

  Woods, Married, Trouble

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