Walter de La Mare Quotes

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• Now that cleverness was the fashion most people were clever - even perfect fools; and cleverness after all was often only a bore: all head…
• Too late for fruit, too soon for flowers.
• When music sounds, gone is the earth I know, And all her lovelier things even lovelier grow; Her flowers in vision flame, her forest trees…
• As long as I live I shall always be My Self - and no other, Just me.
• Look thy last on all things lovely, Every hour
• A lost but happy dream may shed its light upon our waking hours, and the whole day may be infected with the gloom of a…
• All day long the door of the sub-conscious remains just ajar; we slip through to the other side, and return again, as easily and secretly…
• The only catalogue of this world's goods that really counts is that which we keep in the silence of the mind.
• As soon as they're out of your sight, you are out of their mind.
• His brow is seamed with line and scar; His cheek is red and dark as wine; The fires as of a Northern star Beneath his…
• Very old are the woods; And the buds that break Out of the brier's boughs, When March winds wake, So old with their beauty are--…
• Lear, Macbeth. Mercutio – they live on their own as it were. The newspapers are full of them, if we were only the Shakespeares to…
• What a haunting, inescapable riddle life was.
• Once a man strays out of the common herd, he's more likely to meet wolves in the thickets than angels.
• After all, what is every man? A horde of ghosts – like a Chinese nest of boxes – oaks that were acorns that were oaks.…
• An hour's terror is better than a lifetime of timidity.
• He got out of bed and peeped through the blinds. To the east and opposite to him gardens and an apple-orchard lay, and there in…
• God has mercifully ordered that the human brain works slowly; first the blow, hours afterwards the bruise.
• It was a pity thoughts always ran the easiest way, like water in old ditches.
• Hi! handsome hunting man Fire your little gun. Bang! Now the animal is dead and dumb and done. Nevermore to peep again, creep again, leap…

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