"Lear, Macbeth. Mercutio – they live on their……" — Walter de La Mare
"Lear, Macbeth. Mercutio – they live on their own as it were. The newspapers are full of them, if we were only the Shakespeares to see it. Have you ever been in a Police Court? Have you ever watched tradesmen behind their counters? My soul, the secrets walking in the streets! You jostle them at every corner. There's a Polonius in every first-class railway carriage, and as many Juliets as there are boarding-schools. ... How inexhaustibly rich everything is, if you only stick to life."
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Walter de La Mare
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24 Quotes by Walter de La Mare
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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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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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What a haunting, inescapable riddle life was.
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