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title: "1 Travel Trafficking Quotes By James Elroy Flecker"
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> [“We travel not for trafficking alone; By hotter winds our hearts are fanned: For lust of knowing what should not be known We take the Golden Road to Samarkand.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-elroy-flecker/we-travel-not-for-trafficking-alone-by-hotter-winds-our-hearts-are/)

[James Elroy Flecker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-elroy-flecker/)

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## More by James Elroy Flecker

> [It is not the poet's business to save man's soul but to make it worth saving . . . However, few poets have written…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-elroy-flecker/it-is-not-the-poet-s-business-to-save-man-s-soul-but-to-make-it-worth/)

[James Elroy Flecker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-elroy-flecker/)

> [“Thy impudence has a monstrous beauty, like the hindquarters of an elephant.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-elroy-flecker/thy-impudence-has-a-monstrous-beauty-like-the-hindquarters-of-an/)

[James Elroy Flecker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-elroy-flecker/)

> [“Between the Pedestals of Night and Morning Between red death and radiant desire With not one sound of triumph or of warning Stands the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-elroy-flecker/between-the-pedestals-of-night-and-morning-between-red-death-and/)

[James Elroy Flecker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-elroy-flecker/)

> [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?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-elroy-flecker/but-have-you-wine-and-music-still-and-statues-and-a-bright-eyed-love/)

[James Elroy Flecker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-elroy-flecker/)

> [For pines are gossip pines the wide world through And full of runic tales to sigh or sing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-elroy-flecker/for-pines-are-gossip-pines-the-wide-world-through-and-full-of-runic/)

[James Elroy Flecker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-elroy-flecker/)

> [“We travel not for trafficking alone; By hotter winds our hearts are fanned: For lust of knowing what should not be known We take…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-elroy-flecker/we-travel-not-for-trafficking-alone-by-hotter-winds-our-hearts-are/)

[James Elroy Flecker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-elroy-flecker/)

> [A ship, an isle, a sickle moon With few but with how splendid stars The mirrors of the sea are strewn Between their silver…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-elroy-flecker/a-ship-an-isle-a-sickle-moon-with-few-but-with-how-splendid-stars-the/)

[James Elroy Flecker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-elroy-flecker/)

> [“O friend unseen, unborn, unknown, Student of our sweet English tongue, Read out my words at night, alone: I was a poet, I was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-elroy-flecker/o-friend-unseen-unborn-unknown-student-of-our-sweet-english-tongue/)

[James Elroy Flecker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-elroy-flecker/)

> [I look down the farthest side of the mountain, fulfilled and understanding all, and truly content that I lived a full life and one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-elroy-flecker/i-look-down-the-farthest-side-of-the-mountain-fulfilled-and/)

[James Elroy Flecker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-elroy-flecker/)

> [We who with songs beguile your pilgrimage And swear that Beauty lives though lilies die, We Poets of the proud old lineage Who sing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-elroy-flecker/we-who-with-songs-beguile-your-pilgrimage-and-swear-that-beauty-lives/)

[James Elroy Flecker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-elroy-flecker/)

> [“We men of this age are rotten with book-lore and with a yearning for the past.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-elroy-flecker/we-men-of-this-age-are-rotten-with-book-lore-and-with-a-yearning-for/)

[James Elroy Flecker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-elroy-flecker/)

> [The poet's business is not to save the soul of man but to make it worth saving.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-elroy-flecker/the-poet-s-business-is-not-to-save-the-soul-of-man-but-to-make-it/)

[James Elroy Flecker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-elroy-flecker/)

> [For the spear was a desert physician, That cured not a few of ambition, And drave not a few to perdition, With medicine bitter…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-elroy-flecker/for-the-spear-was-a-desert-physician-that-cured-not-a-few-of-ambition/)

[James Elroy Flecker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-elroy-flecker/)

> [And some to Meccah turn to pray, and I toward thy bed, Yasmin.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-elroy-flecker/and-some-to-meccah-turn-to-pray-and-i-toward-thy-bed-yasmin/)

[James Elroy Flecker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-elroy-flecker/)

> [For lust of knowing what should not be known, we take the Golden Road to Samarkand.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-elroy-flecker/for-lust-of-knowing-what-should-not-be-known-we-take-the-golden-road/)

[James Elroy Flecker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-elroy-flecker/)

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