Quote by Edward Thomas Download Open image ““If he [Pound] is not careful he will take to meaning what he says instead of saying what he means.”” — Edward Thomas ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“If all that you’re doing is going off at the mouth, a pound of words won’t make an ounce of sense.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“I’m just saying that when there is little left to lose, the consequences of one’s actions don’t carry the same weight…painful or otherwise.” — Amy A. Bartol Copy Share Image
“I can physically see the effort it takes for him to open his mouth and force out the words. He's spent so much of… — Kelley York Copy Share Image
“He carried too much weight, a weight he was always mindful of, that must be present in his life at all times.” — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
“If it be well weighed, to say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God and… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“Use language what you will, you can never say anything but what you are.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“It is a mistake to use intense words without carefully weighing and measuring them, or they will have already been used when one needs… — Guy Sajer Copy Share Image
“When a man's neck's in danger, he doesn't stop to think too much about sentiment.” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“He might even have questioned my courage and whether I was suitable for front-line service. In his own way, he was probably saying that… — Terry Hayes Copy Share Image
A merely great intellect can produce prose, but not poetry, not one line. — Edward Thomas Copy Share Image
If I should ever by chance grow richI'll buy Codham, Cockridden, and Childerditch,Roses, Pyrgo, and Lapwater,And let them all to my eldest daughter. — Edward Thomas Copy Share Image
To-day I think Only with scents, - scents dead leaves yield, And bracken, and wild carrot's seed, And the square mustard field; Odours that… — Edward Thomas Copy Share Image
I like to think how easily Nature will absorb London as she absorbed the mastodon, setting her spiders to spin the winding-sheet and her… — Edward Thomas Copy Share Image
“Tall Nettles Tall nettles cover up, as they have done These many springs, the rusty harrow, the plough Long worn out, and the roller… — Edward Thomas Copy Share Image
“You English words? I know you: You are light as dreams, Tough as oak, Precious as gold, As poppies and corn, Or an old… — Edward Thomas Copy Share Image
How nice it would be to be dead if only we could know we were dead. That is what I hate, the not being… — Edward Thomas Copy Share Image
“Rain, midnight rain, nothing but the wild rain On this bleak hut, and solitude, and me Remembering again that I shall die And neither… — Edward Thomas Copy Share Image
Yes; I remember Adlestrop- The name, because one afternoon Of heat the express-train drew up there Unwontedly. It was late June. — Edward Thomas Copy Share Image
Over the land freckled with snow half-thawed The speculating rooks at their nests cawed And saw from elm tops, delicate as flower of grass,… — Edward Thomas Copy Share Image
“This ploughman dead in battle slept out of doors Many a frozen night, and merrily Answered staid drinkers, good bedmen, and all bores: "At… — Edward Thomas Copy Share Image
I built myself a house of glass:It took me years to make it:And I was proud. But now, alas!Would God someone would break it. — Edward Thomas Copy Share Image