Elegy Quotes
Collection of top 22 famous quotes about Elegy
Elegy Quotes & Sayings
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If no one else, the dying must notice how unreal, how full of pretense, is all that we accomplish here, where nothing is allowed to be itself.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
The elegy does the work of mourning; it allows us to experience mortality. It turns loss into remembrance, and it delivers an inheritance.
— Edward Hirsch
To me, elegy suggests that there is hope, and in some respects you've moved past the loss and are able to deal with it and to write about it.
— Jacqueline Woodson
There is no elegy for those who have been dispossessed of their angerwhat remains is a future carved out of banality instead of blood. — Brando Skyhorse
Regret is a short, evocative and achingly beautiful word: an elegy to lost possibilities even in its brief annunciation.
— David Whyte
Every angel is terrifying.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
We have an obligation to feel guilty." The words came out of her lips as if she were reciting an elegy. "Guilty. Because we kill the ones we love.
— Cristiane Serruya
Did you tell them that you made love to the poet?Did you tell them that our lovechild is an elegy? — Danabelle Gutierrez
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.
— Samuel Laman Blanchard
Each loved one went silently down;bubbles bursting leaving behind
images they held
to stick on the glass of memory. — Dr. Prathap Kamath Elegy
Travel is a caprice in childhood, a passion in youth, a necessity in manhood, and an elegy in old age.
— Jose Rizal
From behind the wheel, I learn the difference between a eulogy and an elegy, and discover which is more vital, in life and in death.
— David Levithan
Elegy of the Death of a Mad Dog The dog, to gain some praivate ends, Went mad and bit the man.
— Oliver Goldsmith
Loneliness Ends With Love
— Al Lerner
Tinted Distances is a tender meditation that reveals a careful eye and steady devotion to elegy and ode.
— Dorianne Laux
A word is elegy to what it signifies.
— Robert Haas
