Top 27 Flecker Quotes
#1. For the spear was a desert physician, That cured not a few of ambition, And drave not a few to perdition, With medicine bitter and strong.
James Elroy Flecker
#2. You can compare it to dreams: you have a very specific and individual pictorial language that you either accept or that you can translate rashly and wrongly. Of course, you can ignore dreams, but that would be a shame, because they're useful.
Gerhard Richter
#4. 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!
James Elroy Flecker
#5. I just had an idea that went right over my head.
Lawrence Welk
#6. It turns out that style matters in programming for the same reason that it matters in writing. It makes for better reading.
Douglas Crockford
#8. When the great markets by the sea shut fastAll 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.
James Elroy Flecker
#9. Well and good if all things change, O Lord God, provided I am rooted in You.
San Juan De La Cruz
#10. I look down the farthest side of the mountain,
fulfilled and understanding all,
and truly content that
I lived a full life and one
that was my own choice
James Elroy Flecker
#11. For pines are gossip pines the wide world through And full of runic tales to sigh or sing.
James Elroy Flecker
#12. Half to forget the wandering and pain, Half to remember days that have gone by, And dream and dream that I am home again!
James Elroy Flecker
#13. One week before my 17th birthday, I had a blind date with June Rose, a television actress on network soap operas, a model, and a regular on the popular Dick Clark's Saturday night 'American Bandstand' show from New York. We were married five years later, one week after my graduation from Columbia.
Robert C. Merton
#14. The poet's business is not to save the soul of man but to make it worth saving.
James Elroy Flecker
#15. As we drive down the freeways, we see the new cars, but not the massive new-car loans that enslave their drivers to the banks.
Gerry Spence
#16. 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
#17. Thy impudence has a monstrous beauty, like the hindquarters of an elephant.
James Elroy Flecker
#18. We who with songs beguile your pilgrimage And swear that Beauty lives though lilies die, We Poets of the proud old lineage Who sing to find your hearts, we know not why What shall we tell you? Tales, marvellous tales Of ships and stars and isles where good men rest.
James Elroy Flecker
#19. Pass not beneath, O Caravan, or pass not singing. Have you heard
That silence where the birds are dead yet something pipeth like a bird?
James Elroy Flecker
#20. I'm not kind, darling. I'm only nice to people when I'm planning to take advantage of them." Lillian responded with a carefree grin, daring to ask, "Am I in danger from you, my lord?" Though his expression remained relaxed with good humor, his eyes were disturbingly intent. "I'm afraid so.
Lisa Kleypas
#21. One man alone can't defeat the forces of evil, but many good people coming together can.
Harold S. Kushner
#22. Dat's what they say of this cauntry back home, Kath: 'America, the land of milk and honey.' Bot they never tell you the milk's gone sour and the honey's stolen.
Andre Dubus III
#23. For my first pretty big international competition and the Olympics, I think I did pretty well. Medals aren't everything. It's all about you going out there and having a good time. I feel proud of myself.
Kimmie Meissner
#24. I sometimes go and sit there. it is my museum of broken things.
Sachin Kundalkar
#25. Please tell me how the hell was I not going to fall in love with her? Without a doubt, she's the most amazing person I've ever known.
Abi Ketner
#26. We men of this age are rotten with book-lore and with a yearning for the past.
James Elroy Flecker
#27. 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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