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James Elroy Flecker Quotes
«A ship, an isle, a sickle moon - / With few but with how splendid stars / The mirrors of the sea are strewn / Between their silver bars.»
«West of these out to seas colder than the Hebrides I must go, / Where the fleet of stars is anchored and the young star-captains glow.»
«I have seen old ships sail like swans asleep / Beyond the village which men still call Tyre.»
Author: James Elroy Flecker
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«When the great markets by the sea shut fast / All that calm Sunday that goes on and on: / When even lovers find their peace at last,/ And Earth is but a star, that once had shone.»
«The poet's business is not to save the soul of man but to make it worth saving.»
Author: James Elroy Flecker
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«Half to forget the wandering and pain,/ Half to remember days that have gone by,/ And dream and dream that I am home again!»
Author: James Elroy Flecker
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«Neon strikes on England, noon on Oxford town,Beauty she was statue cold - there's blood upon her gown.»
Author: James Elroy Flecker
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«Read out my words at night, alone: I was a poet, I was young»
Author: James Elroy Flecker
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«For one night or the other night / Will come the Gardener in white, and gathered flowers are dead, Yasmin.»
Author: James Elroy Flecker
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