Richard Le Gallienne
Richard Le Gallienne
Richard Le Galliennewas an English author and poet. The American actress Eva Le Galliennewas his daughter, by his second marriage...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
lonely men earth
There’s too much beauty upon this earth For lonely men to bear.
journey men thinking
Though actually the work of man's hands - or, more properly speaking, the work of his travelling feet, - roads have long since come to seem so much a part of Nature that we have grown to think of them as a feature of the landscape no less natural than rocks and trees.
life skills interesting
How much more interesting life would be if only more people had the courage and skill to act themselves, instead of abjectly understudying some one else!
horse hills
Time's horses gallop down the lessening hill.
leaving traveler
The road recedes as the traveler advances, leaving a continuous present.
wife soul sentimental
The soul's a sort of sentimental wife, That prays and whimpers of the higher life.
writing fake bad-writing
You can't fake it. Bad writing is a gift.
song spring flower
We are all treading the vanishing road of a song in the air, the vanishing road of the spring flowers and the winter snows, the vanishing roads of the winds and the streams, the vanishing road of beloved faces.
long way facts
Youth, however, can afford to enjoy even its melancholy; for the ultimate fact of which that melancholy is a prophecy is a long way off.
perfect imagination half
We also maintain - again with perfect truth - that mystery is more than half of beauty, the element of strangeness that stirs the senses through the imagination.
passion world growing
More and more the world is growing to love a lover, and one has only to read the newspapers to see how sympathetic are the times to any generous and adventurous display of the passions.
excess fine worth-living
It is the fine excesses of life that make it worth living.
agency cynical religion
Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founder's than any other agency in the world.
spiritual law space
The spiritual element, the really important part of religion, has no concern with Time and Space, temporary mundane laws, or conduct.