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Walter de La Mare Quotes

All Quotes Lying Silence Water

What a haunting, inescapable riddle life was.

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

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

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

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

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

Look thy last on all things lovely, Every hour

Motley and Other Poems (1918) "Fare Well"

What lovely things Thy hand hath made.

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

So, blind to Someone I must be.

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

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

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