Elegiac Quotes

9 quotes by 9 authors

• I who once wrote songs with keen delight am now by sorrow driven to take up melancholy measures. Wounded Muses tell me what I must… — Boethius
• This poem is one of a series, all of them elegiac in intention, and subject to the strange forces of mourning that let loose illogical… — Lyn Hejinian
• There's an elegiac quality in watching [American wilderness] go, because it's our own myth, the American frontier, that's deteriorating before our eyes. I feel a… — Peter Matthiessen
• Blumenthal goes straight to the heart in these poems. Gorgeously wrought, surprising, true, wise, elegiac, they leave me with a sense of having listened to… — Lynn Freed
• It is a nostalgic time right now, and photographs actively promote nostalgia. Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just… — Susan Sontag
• My books are elegiac in the sense that they're odes to a nation that even I sometimes think may not exist anymore except in my… — Richard Russo
• Most people think that a widow is inhabiting some elegiac world of - it's like Mozart's 'Requiem Mass.' You know, it's very beautiful and elevated… — Joyce Carol Oates
• I am not unique in my elegiac sadness at watching reading die, in the era that celebrates Stephen King and J.K. Rowling rather than Charles… — Harold Bloom
• As he enters his final term, with the elegiac music playing out there in the distance, Barack Obama will use the history that he has… — Charlie Pierce

Who Wrote These Elegiac Quotes

9 authors contributed a total of 9 Elegiac Quotes as follows:

• 1 Elegiac Quote by Boethius
• 1 Elegiac Quote by Lyn Hejinian
• 1 Elegiac Quote by Peter Matthiessen
• 1 Elegiac Quote by Lynn Freed
• 1 Elegiac Quote by Susan Sontag
• 1 Elegiac Quote by Richard Russo
• 1 Elegiac Quote by Joyce Carol Oates
• 1 Elegiac Quote by Harold Bloom
• 1 Elegiac Quote by Charlie Pierce