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James Elroy Flecker quotes: For pines are gossip pines the wide world through And full of runic tales to sigh or sing.

For pines are gossip pines the wide world through And full of runic tales to sigh or sing.

James Elroy Flecker quotes: But have you wine and music still,And statues and a bright-eyed love,And foolish thoughts of good and ill,And prayers to them who sit above?

But have you wine and music still,And statues and a bright-eyed love,And foolish thoughts of good and ill,And prayers to them who sit above?

James Elroy Flecker quotes: I have seen old ships sail like swans asleep.

I have seen old ships sail like swans asleep.

James Elroy Flecker quotes: For the spear was a desert physician, That cured not a few of ambition, And drave not a few to perdition, With medicine bitter and strong.

For the spear was a desert physician, That cured not a few of ambition, And drave not a few to perdition, With medicine bitter and strong.

James Elroy Flecker quotes: And some to Meccah turn to pray, and I toward thy bed, Yasmin.

And some to Meccah turn to pray, and I toward thy bed, Yasmin.

James Elroy Flecker quotes: A ship, an isle, a sickle moon With few but with how splendid stars The mirrors of the sea are strewn Between their silver bars!

A ship, an isle, a sickle moon With few but with how splendid stars The mirrors of the sea are strewn Between their silver bars!

James Elroy Flecker quotes: The poet's business is not to save the soul of man but to make it worth saving.

The poet's business is not to save the soul of man but to make it worth saving.

James Elroy Flecker quotes: Half to forget the wandering and pain, Half to remember days that have gone by, And dream and dream that I am home again!

Half to forget the wandering and pain, Half to remember days that have gone by, And dream and dream that I am home again!

James Elroy Flecker quotes: We men of this age are rotten with book-lore and with a yearning for the past.

We men of this age are rotten with book-lore and with a yearning for the past.

James Elroy Flecker quotes: Pass not beneath, O Caravan, or pass not singing. Have you heardThat silence where the birds are dead yet something pipeth like a bird?

Pass not beneath, O Caravan, or pass not singing. Have you heard
That silence where the birds are dead yet something pipeth like a bird?

James Elroy Flecker quotes: Thy impudence has a monstrous beauty, like the hindquarters of an elephant.

Thy impudence has a monstrous beauty, like the hindquarters of an elephant.