Travel Quote by 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 the Golden Road to Samarkand.” quote by James Elroy Flecker — Download Open 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 the Golden Road to Samarkand.””

James Elroy Flecker

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It is not the poet's business to save man's soul but to make it worth saving . . . However, few poets have written with a clear theory of art for art's sake, it is by that theory alone that their work has been, or can be, judged; -and rightly so if we remember that art embraces all life and…

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

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“Between the Pedestals of Night and Morning Between red death and radiant desire With not one sound of triumph or of warning Stands the great sentry on the Bridge of Fire. O transient soul, thy thought with dreams adorning, Cast down the laurel, and unstring the lyre: the wheels of Time are turning, turning, turning, The slow stream channels deep…

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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?

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

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A ship, an isle, a sickle moon With few but with how splendid stars The mirrors of the sea are strewn Between their silver…

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“O friend unseen, unborn, unknown, Student of our sweet English tongue, Read out my words at night, alone: I was a poet, I was…

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I look down the farthest side of the mountain, fulfilled and understanding all, and truly content that I lived a full life and one…

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We who with songs beguile your pilgrimage And swear that Beauty lives though lilies die, We Poets of the proud old lineage Who sing…

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

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

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For the spear was a desert physician, That cured not a few of ambition, And drave not a few to perdition, With medicine bitter…

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