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“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.”
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James Elroy Flecker
Source : James Elroy Flecker, James Hogg (1976). “The Leysin Version of James Elroy Flecker's Hassan”
#Strong Quotes
#Ambition Quotes
#Medicine Quotes
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“When the great markets by the sea shut fastAll that calm Sunday that goes on and on:When even lovers find their peace at last,And Earth is but a star, that once had shone.”
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James Elroy Flecker
Source : 'The Golden Journey to Samarkand' (1913) 'Prologue'
#Stars Quotes
#Sunday Quotes
#Sea Quotes
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“I have seen old ships sail like swans asleep.”
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James Elroy Flecker
Source : 'Old Ships' (1915)
#Swans Quotes
#Ships Quotes
#Sail Quotes
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“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!”
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James Elroy Flecker
Source : 'The Golden Journey to Samarkand' (1913) 'A Ship, an Isle, and a Sickle Moon'
#Stars Quotes
#Moon Quotes
#Mirrors Quotes
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“Half to forget the wandering and pain, Half to remember days that have gone by, And dream and dream that I am home again!”
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James Elroy Flecker
Source : 1913 'Brumana'.
#Dream Quotes
#Pain Quotes
#Home Quotes
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“For pines are gossip pines the wide world through And full of runic tales to sigh or sing.”
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James Elroy Flecker
Source : 1913 'Brumana'.
#Gossip Quotes
#World Quotes
#Tales Quotes
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“We who with songs beguile your pilgrimage And swear that Beauty lives though lilies die, We Poets of the proud old lineage Who sing to find your hearts, we know not why What shall we tell you? Tales, marvellous tales Of ships and stars and isles where good men rest.”
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James Elroy Flecker
Source : 'The Golden Journey to Samarkand' (1913) 'Prologue'
#Song Quotes
#Stars Quotes
#Heart Quotes
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“I look down the farthest side of the mountain, fulfilled and understanding all, and truly content that I lived a full life and one that was my own choice”
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James Elroy Flecker
#Choices Quotes
#Understanding Quotes
#Mountain Quotes
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“The poet's business is not to save the soul of man but to make it worth saving.”
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James Elroy Flecker
Source : "Modern British Poetry". Book by Louis Untermeyer, Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1920.
#Men Quotes
#Soul Quotes
#Saving Quotes
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“It is not the poet's business to save man's soul but to make it worth saving . . . However, few poets have written with a clear theory of art for art's sake, it is by that theory alone that their work has been, or can be, judged; -and rightly so if we remember that art embraces all life and all humanity, and sees in the temporary and fleeting doctrines of conservative or revolutionary only the human grandeur or passion that inspires them.”
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James Elroy Flecker
#Art Quotes
#Passion Quotes
#Men Quotes
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“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?”
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James Elroy Flecker
Source : James Elroy Flecker (1947). “Selected Poems”
#Prayer Quotes
#Wine Quotes
#Foolish Quotes
