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What a haunting, inescapable riddle life was.

Walter de La Mare

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Walter de La Mare
Age: 83 †
Born: 1873
Born: April 25
Died: 1956
Died: June 22
Novelist
Poet
Prosaist
Writer
Charlton
London
Walter Ramal
Walter John de la Mare
Inescapable
Haunting
Riddle
Life

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Without imagination of the one kind or of the other, mortal existence is indeed a dreary and prosaic business... Illumined by the imagination, our life, whatever its defeats - is a never-ending unforeseen strangeness and adventure and mystery.
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As soon as they're out of your sight, you are out of their mind.
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Dobbin at manger pulls his hay: Gone is another summer's day.
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What lovely things Thy hand hath made.
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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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A lost but happy dream may shed its light upon our waking hours, and the whole day may be infected with the gloom of a dreary or sorrowful one yet of neither may we be able to recover a trace.
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What is the world, O soldiers? It is I, I, this incessant snow, This northern sky.
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Too late for fruit, too soon for flowers.
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Very old are the woods And the buds that break Out of the brier's boughs, When March winds wake, So old with their beauty are-- Oh, no man knows Through what wild centuries Roves back the rose.
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An hour's terror is better than a lifetime of timidity.
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Once a man strays out of the common herd, he's more likely to meet wolves in the thickets than angels.
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It was a pity thoughts always ran the easiest way, like water in old ditches.
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God has mercifully ordered that the human brain works slowly first the blow, hours afterwards the bruise.
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Oh, pity the poor glutton Whose troubles all begin In struggling on and on to turn What's out into what's in.
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A harvest mouse goes scampering by, With silver claws and silver eye And moveless fish in the water gleam, By silver reeds in a silver stream.
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When I lie where shades of darkness Shall no more assail mine eyes.
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For beauty with sorrow Is a burden hard to be borne: The evening light on the foam, and the swans, there That music, remote, forlorn.
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All but blind In his chambered hole Gropes for worms The four-clawed Mole.
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Do diddle di do, Poor Jim Jay Got stuck fast In Yesterday.
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He got out of bed and peeped through the blinds. To the east and opposite to him gardens and an apple-orchard lay, and there in strange liquid tranquility hung the morning star, and rose, rilling into the dusk of night the first grey of dawn. The street beneath its autumn leaves was vacant, charmed, deserted.
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