Elegy Quotes

16 quotes by 13 authors

A word is elegy to what it signifies. — Robert Hass
Tinted Distances is a tender meditation that reveals a careful eye and steady devotion to elegy and ode. — Dorianne Laux
Sooner or later, all the peoples of the world will have to discover a way to live together in peace, and thereby transform this pending… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Elegy of the Death of a Mad Dog The dog, to gain some praivate ends, Went mad and bit the man. — Oliver Goldsmith
Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog And in that town a dog was found, As many dogs there be, Both mongrel, puppy, whelp,… — Oliver Goldsmith
Travel is a caprice in childhood, a passion in youth, a necessity in manhood, and an elegy in old age. — Jose Rizal
ELEGY, n. A composition in verse, in which, without employing any of the methods of humor, the writer aims to produce in the reader's mind… — Ambrose Bierce
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
My images are unashamedly idyllic and romantic, a kind of enchanted Africa. They're my elegy to a world that is steadily, tragically vanishing. — Nick Brandt
I want my images to achieve two things in this regard - to be an elegy to a world that is tragically vanishing, to make… — Nick Brandt
Every angel is terrifying. — Rainer Maria Rilke
I canâ€™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
Be With Me In The Phases Of My Work Because My Brain Feels Like It Has Been Whipped And I Yearn To Make A Small… — Leonard Cohen
The splendors of the firmament of time May be eclipsed, but are extinguished not; Like stars to their appointed height they climb And death is… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
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
ELEGY, n. A composition in verse, in which, without employing any of the methods of humor, the writer aims to produce in the reader's mind… — Ambrose Bierce

Who Wrote These Elegy Quotes

13 authors contributed a total of 16 Elegy Quotes as follows: