01c. 1914 ADHi! handsome hunting manFire your little gun.Bang! Now the animalis dead and dumb and done.Nevermore to peep again, creep again, leap again,Eat or sleep or drink again. Oh, what fun!Walter de la Mare / quote ↗
02c. 1914 ADIn these days of faith-cures, and hypnotism, and telepathy, and subliminalities – why, the simple old world grows very confusing. But rarely, very rarely novel.Walter de la Mare / quote ↗
03c. 1914 ADLawford had soundlessly stolen a pace or two nearer, and by stopping forward he could, each in turn, scrutinize the little intent company sitting over his story around the lamp at the further end of the table; squatting like little children with their twigs and pins, fishing for wonders on the brink of the unknown.Walter de la Mare / quote ↗
04c. 1914 ADOnce a man strays out of the common herd, he's more likely to meet wolves in the thickets than angels.Walter de la Mare / quote ↗
05c. 1914 ADIt was to be a day of queer experiences. He had never realized with how many miracles mere everyday life is besieged.Walter de la Mare / quote ↗
06c. 1914 ADWhen there hasn't been anything there, nothing can be said to have vanished from the place where it has not been.("Out Of The Deep")Walter de la Mare / quote ↗
07c. 1914 ADIt's a very odd thing As odd as can be That whatever Miss T. eats Turns into Miss T.Walter de la Mare / quote ↗
