Friday 25 April 2014

April 25th: Walter de la Mare

Walter de la Mare was born on this date in 1873. Here are 10 quotes by him:


  1. Once a man strays out of the common herd, he's more likely to meet wolves in the thickets than angels.
  2. God has mercifully ordered that the human brain works slowly; first the blow, hours afterwards the bruise.
  3. What a haunting, inescapable riddle life was.
  4. An hour's terror is better than a lifetime of timidity.
  5. As long as I live I shall always be My Self - and no other, Just me.
  6. It was to be a day of queer experiences. He had never realized with how many miracles mere everyday life is besieged.
  7. Fancies were all very well for a change, but must be only occasional guests in a world devoted to reality.
  8. Thinking is like a fountain. Once it gets going at a certain pressure, well, it almost impossible to turn it off. And, my hat! what odd things come up with the water!
  9. When there hasn't been anything there, nothing can be said to have vanished from the place where it has not been.
  10. 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.

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