James Elroy Flecker

Quotes

• “I care not if you bridge the seas,   Or ride secure the cruel sky,Or build consummate palaces   Of metal or of masonry.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?”
• “O friend unseen, unborn, unknown,  Student of our sweet English tongue,Read out my words at night, alone:  I was a poet, I was young.”
• “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.”
• “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.”
• “When even lovers find their peace at last, And Earth is but a star, that once had shone.”
• “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.”

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