Walter de La Mare Quotes

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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 again, as easily and secretly as a cat.

Walter de La Mare

Cat, Doors, Long

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As long as I live I shall always be My Self - and no other, Just me.

Walter de La Mare

Self, Long

Walter De La Mare (1944). “Collected Rhymes and Verses”

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Without imagination of the one kind or of the other, mortal existence is indeed a dreary and prosaic business... Illumined by the imagination, our life, whatever its defeats - is a never-ending unforeseen strangeness and adventure and mystery.

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Adventure, Imagination, Kind

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What a haunting, inescapable riddle life was.

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Haunting, Riddle

Walter De la Mare (1997). “The Return”, p.121, Courier Corporation

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An hour's terror is better than a lifetime of timidity.

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Lifetime, Hours, Terror

Walter de La Mare (2013). “The Return”, p.60, Courier Corporation

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Slowly, silently, now the moon
Walks the night in her silver shoon.

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Moon, Night, Silver

Peacock Pie (1913) "Silver"

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Too late for fruit, too soon for flowers.

Walter de La Mare

Flower, Fruit, Too Late

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Look thy last on all things lovely, Every hour

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Lovely, Looks, Slumber

Motley and Other Poems (1918) "Fare Well"

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Once a man strays out of the common herd, he's more likely to meet wolves in the thickets than angels.

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Angel, Men, Common

Walter De la Mare (1997). “The Return”, p.115, Courier Corporation

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After all, what is every man? A horde of ghosts - like a Chinese nest of boxes - oaks that were acorns that were oaks. Death lies behind us, not in front - in our ancestors, back and back until.

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Lying, Men, Chinese

Walter de La Mare (2013). “The Return”, p.85, Courier Corporation

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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

Swans, Evening Light, Sorrow

Walter De la Mare (1941). “Collected poems”

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And some win peace who spend
The skill of words to sweeten despair
Of finding consolation where
Life has but one dark end.

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Death, Dark, Winning

Walter De la Mare (1941). “Collected poems”

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When I lie where shades of darkness Shall no more assail mine eyes.

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Lying, Eye, Darkness

1918 'Fare Well'.

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It was a pity thoughts always ran the easiest way, like water in old ditches.

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Water, Way, Pity

Walter de la Mare “The Return”, Lulu.com

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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 strange liquid tranquility hung the morning star, and rose, rilling into the dusk of night the first grey of dawn. The street beneath its autumn leaves was vacant, charmed, deserted.

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Morning, Stars, Autumn

Walter De la Mare (1933). “The Walter De La Mare Omnibus: Henry Brocken ; The Return ; Memoirs of a Midget”

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What lovely things Thy hand hath made.

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Hands, Lovely, Lovely Things

Walter De la Mare (1941). “Collected poems”

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So, blind to Someone I must be.

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Blind

Walter De la Mare (1902). “Down-adown-derry: A Book of Fairy Poems”, p.26, Library of Alexandria

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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 and no body

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Fashion, Clever, People

Walter de La Mare (2013). “The Return”, p.3, Courier Corporation

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As soon as they're out of your sight, you are out of their mind.

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Cat, Sight, Mind

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Oh, no man knows
Through what wild centuries
Roves back the rose.

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Flower, Men, Rose

The Listeners and Other Poems (1912) "All That's Past"

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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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School, Class, Soul

Walter De la Mare (1933). “The Walter De La Mare Omnibus: Henry Brocken ; The Return ; Memoirs of a Midget”

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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 dreary or sorrowful one; yet of neither may we be able to recover a trace.

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Dream, Light, May

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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 Lift burdened branches, stilled with ecstasies. When music sounds, out of the water rise Naiads whose beauty dims my waking eyes, Rapt in strange dream burns each enchanted face, With solemn echoing stirs their dwelling-place. When music sounds, all that I was I am Ere to this haunt of brooding dust I came; And from Time's woods break into distant song The swift-winged hours, as I hasten along.

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Dream, Song, Flower

Walter De la Mare (1902). “Down-adown-derry: A Book of Fairy Poems”, p.54, Library of Alexandria

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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 old with their beauty are-- Oh, no man knows Through what wild centuries Roves back the rose.

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Men, Wind, Rose

The Listeners and Other Poems (1912) "All That's Past"

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What is the world, O soldiers? It is I, I, this incessant snow, This northern sky.

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Sky, Snow, Soldier

'Napoleon' (1906)

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Born: April 25, 1873
Died: June 22, 1956
Occupation: Poet
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