Elegies Quotes
- I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity. Yet these elegies are… — Wilfred Owen
- I can’t talk about my books. I have written them and tried to forget them. I have written once, and readers have read me many… — Jorge Luis Borges
- A classic lecture, rich in sentiment, With scraps of thundrous Epic lilted out By violet-hooded Doctors, elegies And quoted odes, and jewels five-words-long, That on… — Alfred Lord Tennyson
- It took me years of attempts and failed drafts before I finally wrote the elegies I needed to write. — Natasha Trethewey