"A word is elegy to what it signifies." — Robert Hass
"A word is elegy to what it signifies."
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Robert Hass
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28 Quotes by Robert Hass
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It's hell writing and it's hell not writing. The only tolerable state is having just written.
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Nostalgia locates desire in the past where it suffers no active conflict and can be yearned toward pleasantly.
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One may prefer spring and summer to autumn and winter, but preference is hardly to the point. The earth turns,…
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Golf is a worrier's game, inward, concentrated, a matter of inches, invented by the same people who gave us Presbyterianism.
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It is good sometimes for poetry to disenchant us.
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Poetry is a fireplace in summer or a fan in winter.
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Justice is the well water of the city of/ Novgorod, black and sweet
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The birds are silent in the woods. / Just wait: soon enough / You will be quiet too
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All the new thinking is about loss. In this it resembles all the old thinking
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I think that the job of poetry, its political job, is to refresh the idea of justice, which is going…
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The Earth forgives the previous year every year.
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The first book that really knocked me out was the 'Brothers Karamazov.' I read it when I was a senior…
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More Elegy Quotes
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Tinted Distances is a tender meditation that reveals a careful eye and steady devotion to elegy and ode.
— Dorianne Laux
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Sooner or later, all the peoples of the world will have to discover a way to live together in peace,…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Elegy of the Death of a Mad Dog The dog, to gain some praivate ends, Went mad and bit the…
— Oliver Goldsmith
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Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog And in that town a dog was found, As many dogs there…
— Oliver Goldsmith
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Travel is a caprice in childhood, a passion in youth, a necessity in manhood, and an elegy in old age.
— Jose Rizal
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ELEGY, n. A composition in verse, in which, without employing any of the methods of humor, the writer aims to…
— Ambrose Bierce
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I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the…
— Wilfred Owen
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My images are unashamedly idyllic and romantic, a kind of enchanted Africa. They're my elegy to a world that is…
— Nick Brandt
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I want my images to achieve two things in this regard - to be an elegy to a world that…
— Nick Brandt
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Every angel is terrifying.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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I can’t talk about my books. I have written them and tried to forget them. I have written once, and…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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Be With Me In The Phases Of My Work Because My Brain Feels Like It Has Been Whipped And I…
— Leonard Cohen
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