Alan Seeger quotes
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“From a boy I gloated on existence. Earth to me Seemed all-sufficient and my sojourn there One trembling opportunity for joy.”
-- Alan SeegerSource : Alan Seeger (2001). “Poems”
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“I have a rendezvous with death... I will not fail that rendezvous”
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“But I've a rendezvous with Death At midnight in some flaming town, When Spring trips north again this year, And I to my pledged word am true, I shall not fail that rendezvous.”
-- Alan SeegerSource : "I Have a Rendezvous with Death" l. 20 (1916)
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“At Earth's great market where Joy is trafficked in, Buy while thy purse yet swells with golden Youth.”
-- Alan SeegerSource : Alan Seeger (2001). “Poems”
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“Spirit of Beauty, whose sweet impulses, flung like rose of dawn across the sea, alone can flush the exalted consciousness with shafts of sensible divinity-light of the world, essential loveliness.”
-- Alan SeegerSource : Alan Seeger (2001). “Poems”
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“Oft as by chance, a little while apart The pall of empty, loveless hours withdrawn, Sweet Beauty, opening on the impoverished heart, Beams like a jewel on the breast of dawn.”
-- Alan SeegerSource : Alan Seeger, Amanda Harlech (2001). “Alan Seeger: the complete works”, Steidl / Edition7L
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“So die as though your funeral Ushered you through the doors that led Into a stately banquet hall Where heroes banqueted.”
-- Alan SeegerSource : Alan Seeger (2001). “Poems”
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“There was a stately drama writ By the hand that peopled the earth and air, And set the stars in the infinite, And made night gorgeous and morning fair; And all that had sense to reason knew That bloody drama must be gone through. Some sat and watched how the action veered-- Waited, profited, trembled, cheered-- We saw not clearly nor understood, But yielding ourselves to the masterhand, Each in his part as best he could, We played it through as the author planned.”
-- Alan SeegerSource : Alan Seeger, “The Hosts”
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