Self Just Quotes by Walter de la Mare

“In these days of faith-cures, and hypnotism, and telepathy, and subliminalities – why, the simple old world grows very confusing. But rarely, very rarely novel.”

— Walter de la Mare

“When indeed you positively press your face, so to speak, against the crystalline window of your eyes, your mind is apt to become a…

— Walter de la Mare

What is the world, O soldiers? It is I, I, this incessant snow, This northern sky.

— Walter de La Mare

“Away There is no sorrow Time heals never; No loss, betrayal, Beyond repair. Balm for the soul, then, Though grave shall sever Lover from…

— Walter de la Mare

“Is there anybody there?" said the Traveller, Knocking on the moonlit door.”

— Walter de la Mare

As long as I live I shall always be My Self - and no other, Just me.

— Walter de La Mare

“Lawford had soundlessly stolen a pace or two nearer, and by stopping forward he could, each in turn, scrutinize the little intent company sitting…

— Walter de la Mare

An hour's terror is better than a lifetime of timidity.

— Walter de La Mare

For beauty with sorrow Is a burden hard to be borne: The evening light on the foam, and the swans, there; That music, remote,…

— Walter de La Mare

We wake and whisper awhile, But, the day gone by, Silence and sleep like fields Of amaranth lie.

— Walter de La Mare

“A poor old Widow in her weeds Sowed her garden with wild-flower seeds; Not too shallow, and not too deep, And down came April…

— Walter de la Mare

Once a man strays out of the common herd, he's more likely to meet wolves in the thickets than angels.

— Walter de La Mare

“It is very seldom that one encounters what would appear to be sheer unadulterated evil in a human face; an evil, I mean, active,…

— Walter de la Mare

It was a pity thoughts always ran the easiest way, like water in old ditches.

— Walter de La Mare

All but blind In his chambered hole Gropes for worms The four-clawed Mole.

— Walter de La Mare