"An hour's terror is better than a lifetime…" — Walter de La Mare
"An hour's terror is better than a lifetime of timidity."
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Walter de La Mare
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24 Quotes by Walter de La Mare
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Now that cleverness was the fashion most people were clever - even perfect fools; and cleverness after all was often…
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Too late for fruit, too soon for flowers.
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When music sounds, gone is the earth I know, And all her lovelier things even lovelier grow; Her flowers in…
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As long as I live I shall always be My Self - and no other, Just me.
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Look thy last on all things lovely, Every hour
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A lost but happy dream may shed its light upon our waking hours, and the whole day may be infected…
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All day long the door of the sub-conscious remains just ajar; we slip through to the other side, and return…
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The only catalogue of this world's goods that really counts is that which we keep in the silence of the…
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As soon as they're out of your sight, you are out of their mind.
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His brow is seamed with line and scar; His cheek is red and dark as wine; The fires as of…
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Very old are the woods; And the buds that break Out of the brier's boughs, When March winds wake, So…
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Lear, Macbeth. Mercutio – they live on their own as it were. The newspapers are full of them, if we…
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