Quotes about Idyll

Raised as we are on the mythology of the Old Testament, we might say that an idyll is an image that has remained with us like a memory of Paradise: life in Paradise was not like following a straight line to the unknown; it was not an adventure. It moved in a circle among known objects. Its monotony bred happiness, not boredom.

No one can give anyone else the gift of the idyll; only an animal can do so, because only animals were not expelled from Paradise.