Travel is a caprice in childhood, a passion in youth, a necessity in manhood, and an elegy in old age. — Jose Rizal Copy Share Image
Part of elegy is confrontation - not just with the idea of death, but with the person who has died. — Allison Joseph Copy Share Image
“There was no energy of a narrative in my family, not even the fervour of an elegy.” — Anne Michaels Copy Share Image
“How the time passed away, slipped into nightfall as if it had never been!” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Elegy of the Death of a Mad Dog The dog, to gain some praivate ends, Went mad and bit the man. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
“From behind the wheel, I learn the difference between a eulogy and an elegy, and discover which is more vital, in life… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
The elegy does the work of mourning; it allows us to experience mortality. It turns loss into remembrance, and it delivers an… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“An Elegy A thousand times must we deplore The lost will never come to life again; Even as flowing water runs away,… — Reiko Chiba Copy Share Image
To me, elegy suggests that there is hope, and in some respects you've moved past the loss and are able to deal… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
“(Later, I'l learn that's the structure of an elegy: lament, consolation; bad news, followed by good news.)” — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
My images are unashamedly idyllic and romantic, a kind of enchanted Africa. They're my elegy to a world that is steadily, tragically… — Nick Brandt Copy Share Image
There's something really unnatural about losing a child, and there's something unnatural about having to write an elegy for your child, but… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Tinted Distances is a tender meditation that reveals a careful eye and steady devotion to elegy and ode. — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
How is the soul profited by the strife of Hector, the arguments of Plato, the poems of Virgil, or the elegies of… — Honorius Augustodunensis Copy Share Image
“And in a mad trance Strike with our spirit's knife Invulnerable nothings We decay Like corpses in a charnel Fear & Grief… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“The tumult of the present seems like a elegy for past youth and past summers, and there rose in her mind a… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“It's really over." He put his arms around her, pulling her to him. "Now just as long as you don't get tangled… — Amanda Hocking Copy Share Image
I want my images to achieve two things in this regard - to be an elegy to a world that is tragically… — Nick Brandt Copy Share Image
“On the morning of what should have been Amelia Ashley's birthday, the river valley that had once housed High Bridge changed for… — Tara Hudson Copy Share Image
“There has not been a day since his sudden and mysterious vanishing that I have not been searching for him, looking in… — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
ELEGY, n. A composition in verse, in which, without employing any of the methods of humor, the writer aims to produce in… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“I am not a finished poem, and I am not the song you’ve turned me into. I am a detached human being,… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear: Full many a flower is born to… — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
“I felt a Funeral, in my Brain, And Mourners to and fro Kept treading – treading – till it seemed That Sense… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
“Elegy on Toy Piano" For Kenneth Koch You don't need a pony to connect you to the unseeable or an airplane to… — Dean Young Copy Share Image
The nobility of Teresa Leo's poems is that they are not disposed to hide from the dark-rather, they display a mind that… — Tony Hoagland Copy Share Image
“The Inevitable Tide by Stewart Stafford The inevitable tide comes, To claim every one of us, Whether sufficient breath of life, Is… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
“Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep, He hath awaken’d from the dream of life; ’Tis we, who lost… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“Lovers were not, Marina, are not permitted to know destruction so deeply. Must be as if they were new. Only their grave… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
ELEGY, n. A composition in verse, in which, without employing any of the methods of humor, the writer aims to produce in… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis' by JD Vance made me entirely rethink U.S. republicanism, Donald Trump… — David Lammy Copy Share Image
