Walter de la Mare

“'Is there anybody there?' said the Traveller, Knocking on the moonlit door.”

“A dream is a telegram from the hidden self.”

“Look thy last on all things lovely, Every hour.”

“Only the rarest kind of best in anything can be good enough for the young.”

“The rarest of all human qualities is consistency.”

“When all the world is young, lad, And all the trees are green; And every goose a swan, lad, And every lass a queen.”

“To look on nothing with spoiled eyes.”

“He is a great man who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others.”

“There is a hunger of the imagination which no printed word can satisfy.”

“To be a child is to be a born exile.”

“The truth is, we are all in the dark. It is as if we were all in a cavern, with a few torches. We see the shapes of things, and the shapes of things are not the things themselves.”

“An exquisite sense of the flaw in things is the secret of happiness.”

“Whatever is fickle and temporary is despicable.”