Famous quotes containing the words wagner and/or field:
“I have witnessed, and greatly enjoyed, the first act of everything which Wagner created, but the effect on me has always been so powerful that one act was quite sufficient; whenever I have witnessed two acts I have gone away physically exhausted; and whenever I have ventured an entire opera the result has been the next thing to suicide.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910)
“Something told the wild geese
It was time to go.
Though the fields lay golden
Something whisperedSnow.”
—Rachel Lyman Field (18941942)
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