Walter de la Mare was born on this date in 1873. Here are 10 quotes by him:
- Once a man strays out of the common herd, he's more likely to meet wolves in the thickets than angels.
- God has mercifully ordered that the human brain works slowly; first the blow, hours afterwards the bruise.
- What a haunting, inescapable riddle life was.
- An hour's terror is better than a lifetime of timidity.
- As long as I live I shall always be My Self - and no other, Just me.
- It was to be a day of queer experiences. He had never realized with how many miracles mere everyday life is besieged.
- Fancies were all very well for a change, but must be only occasional guests in a world devoted to reality.
- 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!
- When there hasn't been anything there, nothing can be said to have vanished from the place where it has not been.
- 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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