Quotes by Walter de la Mare, The Return

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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. D — Walter de la Mare, The Return
It was this mystery, bereft now of all fear, and this beauty together that made life the endless, changing and yet chang — Walter de la Mare, The Return
Lear, Macbeth. Mercutio – they live on their own as it were. The newspapers are full of them, if we were only the Shakes — Walter de la Mare, The Return
That's why I've just gone on … collecting this particular kind of stuff – what you might call riff-raff. There's not a b — Walter de la Mare, The Return
Science, I am told, is making great strides, experimenting, groping after things which no sane man has ever dreamed of b — Walter de la Mare, The Return
We are *all* we are, and all in a sense we care to dream we are. And for that matter, anything outlandish, bizarre, is a — Walter de la Mare, The Return
Fancies were all very well for a change, but must be only occasional guests in a world devoted to reality. — Walter de la Mare, The Return
God has mercifully ordered that the human brain works slowly; first the blow, hours afterwards the bruise. — Walter de la Mare, The Return
It was a pity thoughts always ran the easiest way, like water in old ditches. — Walter de la Mare, The Return
Yes, after all, this by now was his customary loneliness: there was little else he desired for the present than the hosp — Walter de la Mare, The Return
I believe in the devil, in the Powers of Darkness, Lawford, as firmly as I believe he and they are powerless – in the lo — Walter de la Mare, The Return
The time's gone by for sentiment and all that foolery. Mercy's all very well but after all it's justice that clinches th — Walter de la Mare, The Return
In these days of faith-cures, and hypnotism, and telepathy, and subliminalities – why, the simple old world grows very c — Walter de la Mare, The Return
Lawford had soundlessly stolen a pace or two nearer, and by stopping forward he could, each in turn, scrutinize the litt — Walter de la Mare, The Return
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, The Return