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Richard Le Gallienne Quotes

d. 1947 England

Richard Thomas Le Gallienne (1866–1947) was an English man of letters, closely associated with the literary world of London in the 1890s; after that he lived in the US, without altering his period style. The American actress Eva Le Gallienne (1899–1991) was his daughter, by his second marriage.

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Poets

Also known as: Richard Thomas Le Gallienne

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A paradox is a truth standing on its head in order to attract attention.

Dear Sister, You dream like mad, you love like tinder, you aspire like a star-struck moth - for what? That you may hive little lyrics, and sell to a publisher for thirty pieces of silver.

And mark yon alchemist, with zodiac-spangled zone,
Wrenching the mandrake root that fattens in the gloom.

Time’s horses gallop down the lessening hill.

There’s too much beauty upon this earth
For lonely men to bear.

Art, thou hast many infamies,
But not an infamy like this.
O snap the fife and still the drum
And show the monster as she is.

The Illusion of War. Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)

O print-clad damsel, fresh and fair,
Bending above the threshold there
On supple knees and swaying line,
And honeyed curve—dear maid, be mine.

Great is advertisement! 'tis almost fate;
But, little mushroom-men, of puff-ball fame.
Ah, do you dream to be mistaken great
And to be really great are just the same?

Art was a palace once, things great and fair,
And strong and holy , found a temple there

I saw a little burnished fly
Within my Mistress’ bodice lie,
Sipping lovely stolen sweets
From her ample rosy teats.
‘Small adulterer,’ said I,
‘Dost thou know where thou dost lie?
‘’Tis my lady’s bosom fine,
‘And thou dost sip what is not thine.’

Yea, howso we dream,
Or how bravely we do;
The end is the same,
Be we traitor or true:
And after the bloom
And the passion is past
Death comes at last.

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Richard Le Gallienne (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.