Ambition Quote 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…

— James Elroy Flecker

“Thy impudence has a monstrous beauty, like the hindquarters of an elephant.”

— 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…

— 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?

— James Elroy Flecker

For pines are gossip pines the wide world through And full of runic tales to sigh or sing.

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— James Elroy Flecker

“We men of this age are rotten with book-lore and with a yearning for the past.”

— James Elroy Flecker

The poet's business is not to save the soul of man but to make it worth saving.

— James Elroy Flecker