Quotes about Elegy

I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Death folds the corners of my mouth into a heart-shaped star. It sits on my tongue like a stone around which your name blossoms distorted. — Audre Lorde, from "Speechless," The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde . (W. W. Norton & Company; Reprint edition February 17, 2000)

She died, and left to me This heath, this calm and quiet scene, The memory of what has been, And never more will be.