“Asleep in lap of legends old.”

— John Keats

Stanza 15
Poems (1820), The Eve of St. Agnes

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English Romantic poet 1795–1821

Edward Fairfax (1580–1635) English translator

Book XV, stanza 1
Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered (1600)

“Here the old Bacchic piety endures,
Here the sweet legends of the world remain.”

Vita Sackville-West (1892–1962) English writer and gardener

"Tuscany" in The Best Poems of 1923 (1924) edited by Thomas Moult
Context: The dusk is heavy with the wine's warm load;
Here the long sense of classic measure cures
The spirit weary of its difficult pain;
Here the old Bacchic piety endures,
Here the sweet legends of the world remain.

“As a strong horse that has often won on the last lap at Olympia is now resting, tired out by old age.”
Sicut fortis equus, spatio qui saepe supremo Vicit Olympia, nunc senio confectus quiescit.

Ennius (-239–-169 BC) Roman writer

As quoted by Cicero in De Senectute, Chapter V (tr. K. Volk)

“A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it.”

Miles Davis (1926–1991) American jazz musician

On being called a legend.
Quoted in International Herald Tribune (17 July 1991); also in: [The Yale Book of Quotations, Fred R., Shapiro, Yale University Press, 2006, 9780300107982, 189]
1990s

“The importance of oaks both in the economy and in the forest ecosystem is big, but the exceptional part is that this tree plays in the old beliefs and legends.”

Marek Żukow-Karczewski (1961) Polish historian, journalist and opinion journalist

Oak - the king of the Polish trees, "Aura" 9, 1988-09, p. 20-21. http://yadda.icm.edu.pl/yadda/element/bwmeta1.element.agro-72dccf88-5430-4d92-8617-9f550865d9b9?q=1dac2329-67be-4b51-b5b3-4554b1ebe953$15&qt=IN_PAGE

“One more lap, Denny! One more lap!”

Garth Stein The Art of Racing in the Rain

The Art of Racing in the Rain

“She's not a legend. She's a beginner. What is this 'legend'? She can't be a legend at whatever age she is. She can't be a legend, you have to be older.”

Lauren Bacall (1924–2014) American actress, model

As quoted in numerous reports of a response she made to a question by Jenni Falconer during joint interview sessions http://film.guardian.co.uk/venice/story/0,15051,1300356,00.html with Nicole Kidman at the Venice Film Festival (8 September 2004) She, Kidman and others have indicated that the remarks were inaccurately quoted and taken out of context. (see also the Larry King interview)

“Legends were not only for the desperate. Legends were for the brave. (Soren)”

Kathryn Lasky (1944) American children's writer

Source: The Capture

“Legends should stay legends; otherwise they just become history, when the natural course of things is the other way around, from history to legend.”

Ian McDonald book The Dervish House

Source: The Dervish House (2010), Ch. 3, §5 (p. 109)

“I now know that legends in themselves have no power. The power comes from the uses that the living make of the legend. The legends merely represent an ideal.”

Michael Moorcock (1939) English writer, editor, critic

Book 3, Chapter 2 “The Destruction in the Fortress” (p. 260)
The Elric Cycle, The Fortress of the Pearl (1989)

“Asleep in lap of legends old.”

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