Elegy Poetry Quotes

#1. I might be developing an addiction. You being my drug of choice. Rehab is 'not' an option, my love is forever. Just so you know.

Truth Devour

#2. Wheresoe'er I turn my view,
All is strange, yet nothing new:
Endless labor all along,
Endless labor to be wrong:
Phrase that Time has flung away;
Uncouth words in disarray,
Trick'd in antique ruff and bonnet,
Ode, and elegy, and sonnet.

Samuel Johnson

#3. Did you tell them that you made love to the poet?
Did you tell them that our lovechild is an elegy?

Danabelle Gutierrez

#4. Theism tells men that they are the slaves of a God. Atheism assures men that they are the investigators and users of nature.

E. Haldeman-Julius

#5. Make me, o lord, thy spinning wheel complete, thy holy word thy distaff make for me.

Edward Taylor

#6. Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?

Muhammad Iqbal

#7. I remember, as a kid, I'd follow the rooster and the chickens and watch what type of grass they'd eat. And me and my friends would eat that grass, like that was our lunch.

Adam Beach

#8. The thing is, sometimes, you just have to teach people a lesson. Either that or resort to homicide, and I'd rather not go to jail.

Kylie Scott

#9. You can always tell how a man will treat his wife by the way he treats his mother.

Janette Rallison

#10. A word is elegy to what it signifies.

Robert Haas

#11. But if the gospel teaches us anything, it's that disaster is where grace happens.

Jason Stellman

#12. Every angel is terrifying.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#13. There's so many other things to write about than unrequited love.

Lucinda Williams

#14. Life is for living.

Laird Hamilton

#15. The end never justifies the means because there is no end; there are only means.

Penn Jillette

#16. Each loved one went silently down;
bubbles bursting leaving behind
images they held
to stick on the glass of memory.

Dr. Prathap Kamath Elegy