Elegy Quotes
Elegy Quote of the day
Travel is a caprice in childhood, a passion in youth, a necessity in manhood, and an elegy in old age.
My images are unashamedly idyllic and romantic, a kind of enchanted Africa. They're my elegy to a world that is steadily, tragically vanishing.
Sooner or later, all the peoples of the world will have to discover a way to live together in peace, and thereby transform this pending cosmic elegy into a creative psalm of brotherhood.
Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog And in that town a dog was found, As many dogs there be, Both mongrel, puppy, whelp, and hound, And curs of low degree.
Tinted Distances is a tender meditation that reveals a careful eye and steady devotion to elegy and ode.
ELEGY, n. A composition in verse, in which, without employing any of the methods of humor, the writer aims to produce in the reader's mind the dampest kind of dejection.
Part of elegy is confrontation - not just with the idea of death, but with the person who has died.
It seems to me that, with but slight reserve and modification, we may apply to our departed friend his own pathetic and beautiful elegy upon another.
Here all may see my body lie/ But not my soul, for that can fly!
Oh hours of childhood, when behind each shape more than the past appearedand what streamed out before us was not the f
Did you tell them that you made love to the poet?Did you tell them that our lovechild is an elegy?
I read obituaries every day to learn what sorts of lives are available to us, to see an entire life compressed into a few column inches, to fit the whole story in my eye at once.
Each loved one went silently down
