Elegy Quote by Dr. Prathap Kamath Elegy

Examine everything that you've been taught, not simply what you've been taught in school, but the images that have been held up to you…

— Frederick Lenz

There's something really unnatural about losing a child, and there's something unnatural about having to write an elegy for your child, but I felt…

— Edward Hirsch

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…

— Jorge Luis Borges

I want my images to achieve two things in this regard - to be an elegy to a world that is tragically vanishing, to…

— Nick Brandt

“It's really over." He put his arms around her, pulling her to him. "Now just as long as you don't get tangled up with…

— Amanda Hocking

The elegy does the work of mourning; it allows us to experience mortality. It turns loss into remembrance, and it delivers an inheritance.

— Edward Hirsch

Travel is a caprice in childhood, a passion in youth, a necessity in manhood, and an elegy in old age.

— Jose Rizal

“How the time passed away, slipped into nightfall as if it had never been!”

— Anonymous

When I was from Cupid's passions free, my Muse was mute and wrote no elegy.

— Ovid

We should write an elegy for every day that has slipped through our lives unnoticed and unappreciated. Better still, we should write a song…

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

“We pass and leave you lying. No need for rhetoric, for funeral music, for melancholy bugle-calls. No need for tears now, no need for…

— Richard Aldington

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…

— Ambrose Bierce