Books Quote by James Elroy Flecker Download Open image ““We men of this age are rotten with book-lore and with a yearning for the past.”” — James Elroy Flecker ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Decadent Literature Nostalgia Time
“Literature decays only as men become more and more corrupt.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“What was good enough for the fiction fearing men of the past, is no yardstick for the civilized us. Just like what we carve… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“It's time to demythologise an era and build a new myth from the gutter to the stars. It's time to embrace bad men and… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
“What was good enough for the fiction fearing men of the past, is no yardstick for the civilized us.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Doesn't every previous era feel like fiction once it's gone?” — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
“I have no expectation that any man will read history aright who thinks that what was done in a remote age, by men whose… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“And now the page before us blurs. An age is done. The book must close. We are abandoned to history. Raise high one more… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“Now these ashes have grown cold, we open the old book. These oil-stained pages recount the tales of the Fallen, a frayed empire, words… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“The past was irretrievable, the league of lonely men a fiction, the pursuit of the past a doomed attempt to run a hustle on… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“So there existed fathers who dealt in the present, who didn't drag ancient history around like a ball and chain. So there were men… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“That's what literature is. It's the people who went before us, tapping out messages from the past, from beyond the grave, trying to tell… — Connie Willis Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Thy impudence has a monstrous beauty, like the hindquarters of an elephant.” — James Elroy Flecker Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
For pines are gossip pines the wide world through And full of runic tales to sigh or sing. — James Elroy Flecker Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The poet's business is not to save the soul of man but to make it worth saving. — James Elroy Flecker Copy Share Image
For the spear was a desert physician, That cured not a few of ambition, And drave not a few to perdition, With medicine bitter… — James Elroy Flecker Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
