Quotations About / On: GONE

  • 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).)
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  • 43.
    And I her son, though summer-born
    And summer-loving, none the less
    Am easier when the leaves are gone....
    (Philip Larkin (1922-1986), British poet. "Mother, Summer, I....")
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  • 44.
    We heard of all your gain when you had gone,
    And talked about it when the meal lay done....
    (Philip Larkin (1922-1986), British poet. "So you have been, despite parental ban.")
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  • 45.
    Strange now to think of you, gone without corsets and eyes while I
    walk on the sunny pavement of Greenwich Village.
    (Allen Ginsberg (b. 1926), U.S. poet. Kaddish (l. 1). . . Allen Ginsberg: Collected Poems 1947-1980 (1984) Harper and Row.)
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  • 46.
    Pity the planet, all joy gone
    from this sweet volcanic cone;
    (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.)
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  • 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,
    The house is shut and still,
    There is nothing more to say.
    (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.)
  • 49.
    I have gone out, a possessed witch,
    haunting the black air, braver at night;
    dreaming evil,
    (Anne Sexton (1928-1974), U.S. poet. Her Kind (l. 1-3). . . The Complete Poems [Anne Sexton]. (1981) Houghton Mifflin.)
  • 50.
    No burst of nuclear phenomenon
    That put an end to what was going on
    Could make much difference to the dead and gone.
    (Robert Frost (1874-1963), U.S. poet. "The Planners.")
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