Ernest Dowson quotes

“They are not long, the days of wine and roses. Out of a misty dream, our path emerges for a while, then closes, within a dream.”
-- Ernest Dowson

Source : "Vitae Summa Brevis" l. 5 (1896)

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“I cried for madder music and for stronger wine...”
-- Ernest Dowson

Source : Ernest Christopher Dowson, Desmond Flower, Henry Maas (1968). “The Letters of Ernest Dowson”, p.185, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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“Last night, ah, yesternight, betwixt her lips and mine There fell thy shadow, Cynara! thy breath was shed Upon my soul between the kisses and the wine; And I was desolate and sick of an old passion, Yea, I was desolate and bowed my head: I have been faithful to thee, Cynara! in my fashion.”
-- Ernest Dowson

Source : Ernest Dowson, (2013). “The Poems And Prose Of Ernest Dowson”, p.37, Read Books Ltd

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“I cried for madder music and for stronger wine, But when the feast is finished and the lamps expire, Then falls thy shadow, Cynara! the night is thine.”
-- Ernest Dowson

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“They are not long, the days of wine and roses.”
-- Ernest Dowson

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“Pale amber sunlight falls across The reddening October trees.... Are we not better and at home In dreamful Autumn, we who deem No harvest joy is worth a dream? A little while and night shall come, A little while, then, let us dream...”
-- Ernest Dowson

Source : Ernest Dowson (2015). “The Poems of Ernest Dowson”, p.51, Read Books Ltd

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“They are not long, the weeping and the laughter. Love and desire and hate; I think they have no portion in us after We pass the gate.”
-- Ernest Dowson

Source : 'Vitae Summa Brevis'

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“I understand that absinthe makes the tart grow fonder.”
-- Ernest Dowson

Source : Ernest Christopher Dowson, Desmond Flower, Henry Maas (1968). “The Letters of Ernest Dowson”, p.35, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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“Funerals are important rituals. They don't just recognize that a life has ended; they recognize that a life was lived.”

“He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory.”

“Often in winter the end of the day is like the final metaphor in a poem celebrating death: there is no way out.”

“It's every actor's dream to work in a hit show on Broadway and also shoot a television show.”

“There is a graveyard in my poor heart - dark, heaped-up graves, from which no flowers spring.”

Source : Adah Isaacs Menken (1868). “Infelicia [poems].”, p.72

“If I can send the flower of the German nation into the hell of war without the smallest pity for the shedding of precious German blood, then surely I have the right to remove millions of an inferior race that breeds like vermin.”

“William Henry Flower the Anglican too praised evolution as a cleansing solvent, dissolving the dross which had 'encrusted' Christianity 'in the days of ignorance and superstition'.”

“If I could relive my life, what I would do is work with scientists. But not one scientist, because they're locked into their little specializations. I'd go from scientist to scientist to scientist, like a bee goes from flower to flower.”

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“Before I take my last breath, before my last flower withers, I wish to live, I wish to make love, I wish to be in this world close to those who need me, those who I need, in order to learn, comprehend and rediscover that I can be and I want to be better at every moment.”

“We cannot teach a flower how to grow, we can only learn from it.”