Rose Fyleman famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
-
And though you should live in a palace of gold, or sleep in a dried up ditch, You could never be as poor as the fairies are, and never as rich.
-- Rose Fyleman -
Have you watched the fairies when the rain is done, Spreading out their little wings to dry them in the sun?
-- Rose Fyleman -
Blind folk see the fairies. Oh, better far than we, Who miss the shining of their wings Because our eyes are filled with things We do not wish to see.
-- Rose Fyleman -
I think mice Are rather nice. Their tails are long, Their faces small, They haven't any Chins at all.
-- Rose Fyleman -
Deaf folk hear the fairies However soft their song; 'Tis we who lose the honey sound Amid the clamor all around That beats the whole day long.
-- Rose Fyleman
-
Lovers lying two and two Ask not whom they sleep beside, And the bridegroom all night through Never turns him to the bride.
-
The Sunflow'r, thinking 'twas for him foul shame To nap by daylight, strove t' excuse the blame; It was not sleep that made him nod, he said, But too great weight and largeness of his head.
-
I could not sleep when I got on such a hunt for an idea until I had caught it; ...This was a kind of passion with me, and it has stuck by me; for I am never easy now, when I am handling a thought, till I have bounded it north, and bounded it south, and bounded it east, and bounded it west.
-
I define "grindin'" as just nonstop work! Nonstop work, nonstop progress. Can't sleep during that grind - I mean, you get a little bit of it, but if you're progressin' at every hour, every second, you are grindin'.
-
Speaking of sleeping bags, has anything ever had a less creative name?
-
Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters, diaries, bank statements and photographs, that they can play at the recording angel and tell the whole truth about another human life.
-
If I care to listen to every criticism, let alone act on them, then this shop may as well be closed for all other businesses. I have learned to do my best, and if the end result is good then I do not care for any criticism, but if the end result is not good, then even the praise of ten angels would not make the difference.
-
Ah, woman. She is an enigma. An anomaly of perfection & irony. She can lure angels into her arms & give birth to a nation of ideologies.
-
Hell was created for the devil and his angels. If you go, you are an intruder.
-
All the manifested world of things and beings are projected by imagination upon the substratum which is the Eternal All pervading Vishnu , whose nature is Existence- Intelligence ; just as the different ornaments are all made out of the same gold.
You may also like:
-
Edward Thomas
Poet -
Eleanor Farjeon
Author -
Elizabeth Madox Roberts
Novelist -
Ellen Glasgow
Novelist -
Harold Monro
Poet -
Hilda Conkling
Poet -
James Anthony Froude
Novelist -
James Lane Allen
Novelist -
Joseph Jefferson
Actor -
Katherine Anne Porter
Journalist -
Lois Ehlert
Author -
Margaret Widdemer
Poet -
Nick Dear
Writer -
Ralph Hodgson
Poet -
Robert Penn Warren
Poet -
Vera Brittain
Writer -
Walter de La Mare
Poet -
William Allingham
Poet