Richard Le Gallienne

“London, London, our delight, Great flower that opens but at night, Great City of the Midnight Sun, Whose day begins when day is done.”

“All the best things are seen and heard in the night.”

“Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one’s life with pomp and blare, like a gay knight riding down; perhaps it crept to one’s side like an old friend through quiet ways.”

“Paradise is always where love dwells.”

“Of all the things that a man may be, he should be a man.”

“However brutal another person may be, he may have some beauty in his soul, and it is our duty to find it.”

“That is the great mistake about poetry, it is not a thing to be taught.”

“I meant to do my work to-day— But a brown bird sang in the apple-tree, And a butterfly flitted across the field, And all the leaves were calling me.”

“All women are born artists.”

“What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.”

“A warehouse of good intentions is a miserable substitute for a laudable performance.”

“Poetry is a diary kept by a sea captain on an endless voyage.”

“The worldly wisdom of the good old man declares that opportunity knocks once at every man's door, but the far greater wisdom of the saint knows that God is always knocking at our doors.”