James Elroy Flecker Quotes
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For pines are gossip pines the wide world through And full of runic tales to sigh or sing.
— James Elroy Flecker
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
I have seen old ships sail like swans asleep.
— James Elroy Flecker
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
And some to Meccah turn to pray, and I toward thy bed, Yasmin.
— James Elroy Flecker
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
The poet's business is not to save the soul of man but to make it worth saving.
— James Elroy Flecker
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
We men of this age are rotten with book-lore and with a yearning for the past.
— James Elroy Flecker
Pass not beneath, O Caravan, or pass not singing. Have you heardThat silence where the birds are dead yet something pipeth like a bird? — James Elroy Flecker
Thy impudence has a monstrous beauty, like the hindquarters of an elephant.
— James Elroy Flecker