Quotes About Elegies

#1. 'The Duino Elegies' are notoriously cryptic, and part of the reason why I have always loved them is because they invite multiple readings over the course of a lifetime.

Dinaw Mengestu

#2. I can't talk about my books. I have written them and tried to forget them. I have written once, and readers have read me many times, no? I try to think of what I wrote, it's very unhealthy to think about the past, the case of elegies is very sad, as much as the case of complaints.

Jorge Luis Borges

#3. This is what I wanted to hear from you: confess what you are smuggling: moods, states of grace, elegies!

Italo Calvino

#4. How is the soul profited by the strife of Hector, the arguments of Plato, the poems of Virgil, or the elegies of Ovid, who, with others like them, are now gnashing their teeth in the prison of the infernal Babylon, under the cruet tyranny of Pluto?

Honorius Augustodunensis

#5. It took me years of attempts and failed drafts before I finally wrote the elegies I needed to write.

Natasha Trethewey

#6. A classic lecture, rich in sentiment, With scraps of thundrous Epic lilted out By violet-hooded Doctors, elegies And quoted odes, and jewels five-words-long, That on the stretched forefinger of all Time Sparkle for ever.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#7. Poets writing in English have long learned to mourn from classical precedents. They have drawn on a tradition of pastoral elegies, which incorporate the dead into the cycles of nature, that runs from Theocritus' Idylls to John Milton's 'Lycidas' and Percy Shelley's 'Adonais.'

Susan Stewart

#8. Like the curved pipe of a fountain, your arching boughs
drive the sap
downward and up again: and almost without awakening
it bursts out of sleep, into its sweetest achievement.
Like the god stepping into the swan.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#9. Think: the hero prolongs himself, even his falling
was only a pretext for being, his latest rebirth.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#10. I'm intrigued on how music is made, that's how I started getting into it. Of course I've been in the booth before, just joking around to see how it is, and I'll make a couple of beats here or there and help my artists out. But other that, I'll stick to listening.

Kevin Durant

#11. Winning is a matter of endurance. As long as you don't quit, you will win!

E.V. Frapiere

#12. I'm sorry, is there a revival of Shakespeare's Caesar I don't know about.

Ashlan Thomas

#13. We only pass everything by
like a transposition of air.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#14. Localisation stands, at best, at the limits of practical possibility, but it has the decisive argument in its favour that there will be no alternative.

David Fleming

#15. For every criminal case, the judge must construct a perfect syllogism: the major premise must be the general law; the minor premise, whether or not the action in question is in compliance with the law; and the conclusion, acquittal or punishment.

Cesare Beccaria

#16. I am deeply saddened by the suffering of the Iraqi people.

Moshe Katsav