James Elroy Flecker Quotes:
Ocupation: Poet
Life: November 5, 1884 - January 3, 1915
Birthday: November 5
Death: January 3
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source: - James Elroy Flecker, James Hogg (1976). “The Leysin Version of James Elroy Flecker's Hassan”
source: - 'The Golden Journey to Samarkand' (1913) 'Prologue'
I have seen old ships sail like swans asleep.
source: - 'Old Ships' (1915)
source: - 'The Golden Journey to Samarkand' (1913) 'A Ship, an Isle, and a Sickle Moon'
source: - 1913 'Brumana'.
For pines are gossip pines the wide world through And full of runic tales to sigh or sing.
source: - 1913 'Brumana'.
source: - 'The Golden Journey to Samarkand' (1913) 'Prologue'
Topics: Choices, Understanding, Mountain
The poet's business is not to save the soul of man but to make it worth saving.
source: - "Modern British Poetry". Book by Louis Untermeyer, Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1920.
source: - James Elroy Flecker (1947). “Selected Poems”
For lust of knowing what should not be known, we take the Golden Road to Samarkand.
source: - The Golden Journey to Samarkand pt. 1, "Epilogue" (1913)
And some to Meccah turn to pray, and I toward thy bed, Yasmin.
source: - 'The Golden Journey to Samarkand' (1913) 'Yasmin'
