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Walter De La Mare quotes: When there hasn't been anything there, nothing can be said to have vanished from the place where it has not been.("Out Of The Deep") When there hasn't been anything there, nothing can be said to have vanished from the place where it has not been.
("Out Of The Deep")
Walter De La Mare quotes: As long as I live I shall always be My Self - and no other, Just me. As long as I live I shall always be My Self - and no other, Just me.
Walter De La Mare quotes: His are the quiet steeps of dreamland, The waters of no-more-pain; His ram's bell rings 'neath an arch of stars, Rest, rest, and rest again. His are the quiet steeps of dreamland, The waters of no-more-pain; His ram's bell rings 'neath an arch of stars, Rest, rest, and rest again.
Walter De La Mare quotes: But beauty vanishes; beauty passes; However rare rare it be; And when I crumble, who will remember This lady of the West Country? But beauty vanishes; beauty passes; However rare rare it be; And when I crumble, who will remember This lady of the West Country?
Walter De La Mare quotes: And some win peace who spendThe skill of words to sweeten despairOf finding consolation whereLife has but one dark end. And some win peace who spend
The skill of words to sweeten despair
Of finding consolation where
Life has but one dark end.
Walter De La Mare quotes: 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 as a cat. 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 as a cat.
Walter De La Mare quotes: Once a man strays out of the common herd, he's more likely to meet wolves in the thickets than angels. 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 quotes: Marvellous happy it was to beAlone, and yet not solitary.O out of terror and dark, to comeIn sight of home. Marvellous happy it was to be
Alone, and yet not solitary.
O out of terror and dark, to come
In sight of home.
Walter De La Mare quotes: God has mercifully ordered that the human brain works slowly; first the blow, hours afterwards the bruise. God has mercifully ordered that the human brain works slowly; first the blow, hours afterwards the bruise.
Walter De La Mare quotes: When I lie where shades of darkness Shall no more assail mine eyes. When I lie where shades of darkness Shall no more assail mine eyes.
Walter De La Mare quotes: Yes, after all, this by now was his customary loneliness: there was little else he desired for the present than the hospitality of the dark. Yes, after all, this by now was his customary loneliness: there was little else he desired for the present than the hospitality of the dark.
Walter De La Mare quotes: What is the world, O soldiers? It is I, I, this incessant snow, This northern sky. What is the world, O soldiers? It is I, I, this incessant snow, This northern sky.
Walter De La Mare quotes: All but blind In his chambered hole Gropes for worms The four-clawed Mole. All but blind In his chambered hole Gropes for worms The four-clawed Mole.
Walter De La Mare quotes: Look thy last on all things lovely, Every hour Look thy last on all things lovely, Every hour
Walter De La Mare quotes: Do diddle di do, Poor Jim Jay Got stuck fast In Yesterday. Do diddle di do, Poor Jim Jay Got stuck fast In Yesterday.
Walter De La Mare quotes: I know well that only the rarest kind of best can be good enough for the young. I know well that only the rarest kind of best can be good enough for the young.
Walter De La Mare quotes: Oh, pity the poor glutton Whose troubles all begin In struggling on and on to turn What's out into what's in. Oh, pity the poor glutton Whose troubles all begin In struggling on and on to turn What's out into what's in.
Walter De La Mare quotes: The only catalogue of this world's goods that really counts is that which we keep in the silence of the mind. The only catalogue of this world's goods that really counts is that which we keep in the silence of the mind.
Walter De La Mare quotes: A harvest mouse goes scampering by, With silver claws and silver eye; And moveless fish in the water gleam, By silver reeds in a silver stream. A harvest mouse goes scampering by, With silver claws and silver eye; And moveless fish in the water gleam, By silver reeds in a silver stream.
Walter De La Mare quotes: It was to be a day of queer experiences. He had never realized with how many miracles mere everyday life is besieged. It was to be a day of queer experiences. He had never realized with how many miracles mere everyday life is besieged.
Walter De La Mare quotes: We wake and whisper awhile, But, the day gone by, Silence and sleep like fields Of amaranth lie. We wake and whisper awhile, But, the day gone by, Silence and sleep like fields Of amaranth lie.
Walter De La Mare quotes: As soon as they're out of your sight, you are out of their mind. As soon as they're out of your sight, you are out of their mind.
Walter De La Mare quotes: So, blind to Someone I must be. So, blind to Someone I must be.
Walter De La Mare quotes: Fancies were all very well for a change, but must be only occasional guests in a world devoted to reality. Fancies were all very well for a change, but must be only occasional guests in a world devoted to reality.
Walter De La Mare quotes: Poor tired Tim! It's sad for him He lags the long bright morning through, Ever so tired of nothing to do. Poor tired Tim! It's sad for him He lags the long bright morning through, Ever so tired of nothing to do.
Walter De La Mare quotes: The time's gone by for sentiment and all that foolery. Mercy's all very well but after all it's justice that clinches the bargain. The time's gone by for sentiment and all that foolery. Mercy's all very well but after all it's justice that clinches the bargain.
Walter De La Mare quotes: What lovely things Thy hand hath made. What lovely things Thy hand hath made.
Walter De La Mare quotes: An hour's terror is better than a lifetime of timidity. An hour's terror is better than a lifetime of timidity.
Walter De La Mare quotes: Dobbin at manger pulls his hay: Gone is another summer's day. Dobbin at manger pulls his hay: Gone is another summer's day.
Walter De La Mare quotes: Who said, 'All Time's delightHath she for narrow bed;Life's troubled bubble broken'? That's what I said. Who said, 'All Time's delight
Hath she for narrow bed;
Life's troubled bubble broken'?
That's what I said.
Walter De La Mare quotes: What a haunting, inescapable riddle life was. What a haunting, inescapable riddle life was.
Walter De La Mare quotes: Slowly, silently, now the moon Walks the night in her silver shoon. Slowly, silently, now the moon
Walks the night in her silver shoon.
Walter De La Mare quotes: A face peered. All the grey night In chaos of vacancy shone; Nought but vast Sorrow was there The sweet cheat gone. A face peered. All the grey night In chaos of vacancy shone; Nought but vast Sorrow was there The sweet cheat gone.
Walter De La Mare quotes: Too late for fruit, too soon for flowers. Too late for fruit, too soon for flowers.
Walter De La Mare quotes: Let them enjoy their Eden while they can; though there's plenty of apples, I fear, on the tree yet, Mr Lawford. Let them enjoy their Eden while they can; though there's plenty of apples, I fear, on the tree yet, Mr Lawford.
Walter De La Mare quotes: It was a pity thoughts always ran the easiest way, like water in old ditches. It was a pity thoughts always ran the easiest way, like water in old ditches.
Walter De La Mare quotes: Three jolly huntsmen, In coats of red, Rode their horses Up to bed. Three jolly huntsmen, In coats of red, Rode their horses Up to bed.
Walter De La Mare quotes: Is there anybody there? said the Traveller, Knocking on the moonlit door. Is there anybody there? said the Traveller,
Knocking on the moonlit door.
Walter De La Mare quotes: For beauty with sorrow Is a burden hard to be borne: The evening light on the foam, and the swans, there; That music, remote, forlorn. For beauty with sorrow Is a burden hard to be borne: The evening light on the foam, and the swans, there; That music, remote, forlorn.
Walter De La Mare quotes: After all, what is man but a hoard of ghosts? Oaks, that were acorns, that were oaks ... After all, what is man but a hoard of ghosts? Oaks, that were acorns, that were oaks ...

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