James Elroy Flecker

James Elroy Flecker (November 5 1884 – January 3 1915) was an English poet, novelist and playwright. As a poet he was most influenced by the Parnassian poets.

Quotes

 * 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 Golden Journey to Samarkand (l. 7)


 * And some to Meccah turn to pray, and I toward thy bed, Yasmin.
 * Hassan, in Hassan, act 1, sc. 2 (1922)


 * I have seen old ships sail like swans asleep.
 * The Old Ships (l. 1)


 * 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?
 * To a Poet a Thousand Years Hence (l. 9-12)


 * The poet's business is not to save the soul of man but to make it worth saving.
 * Quoted by Louis Untermeyer in Modern British Poetry (1920)