Quotations About / On: GONE
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41.
Moons and years pass by and are gone forever, but a beautiful moment shimmers through life a ray of light.
(Franz Grillparzer (1791-1872), Austrian author. "Into the Album of Two Adorable Cousins in Villach," Poems (1819).) -
42.
The ferryman had told us that all the best Indians were gone except Polis, who was one of the aristocracy.
(Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. "The Allegash and East Branch" (1864) in The Maine Woods (1864), in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 3, p. 175, Houghton Mifflin (1906).) -
43.
And I her son, though summer-born
(Philip Larkin (1922-1986), British poet. "Mother, Summer, I....")
And summer-loving, none the less
Am easier when the leaves are gone.... -
44.
We heard of all your gain when you had gone,
(Philip Larkin (1922-1986), British poet. "So you have been, despite parental ban.")
And talked about it when the meal lay done.... -
45.
Strange now to think of you, gone without corsets and eyes while I
(Allen Ginsberg (b. 1926), U.S. poet. Kaddish (l. 1). . . Allen Ginsberg: Collected Poems 1947-1980 (1984) Harper and Row.)
walk on the sunny pavement of Greenwich Village. -
46.
Pity the planet, all joy gone
(Robert Lowell (1917-1977), U.S. poet. Waking Early Sunday Morning (l. 105-106). . . Oxford Book of Contemporary Verse, The, 1945-1980. D. J. Enright, comp. (1980) Oxford University Press.)
from this sweet volcanic cone; -
47.
America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.
(Georges Clemenceau (1841-1929), French statesman. attributed in Saturday Review of Literature (New York, Dec. 1, 1945).) -
48.
They are all gone away,
(Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935), U.S. poet. The House on the Hill (l. 1-3). . . Modern American Poetry. Louis Untermeyer, ed. (8th rev. ed., 1962) Harcourt, Brace and Company.)
The house is shut and still,
There is nothing more to say. -
49.
I have gone out, a possessed witch,
(Anne Sexton (1928-1974), U.S. poet. Her Kind (l. 1-3). . . The Complete Poems [Anne Sexton]. (1981) Houghton Mifflin.)
haunting the black air, braver at night;
dreaming evil, -
50.
No burst of nuclear phenomenon
(Robert Frost (1874-1963), U.S. poet. "The Planners.")
That put an end to what was going on
Could make much difference to the dead and gone.
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