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
perseverance stars light
Stay the course, light a star, Change the world where'er you are.
hands forever promise
Nature is forever arriving and forever departing, forever approaching, forever vanishing; but in her vanishings there seems to be ever the waving of a hand, in all her partings a promise of meetings farther along the road.
hands romance enemy
Modern science, then, so far from being an enemy of romance, is seen on every hand to be its sympathetic and resourceful friend, its swift and irresistible helper in its serious need, and an indulgent minister to its lighter fancies.
beauty womens-beauty missions
A woman's beauty is one of her great missions.
jealousy mean greatness
There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report.
smile love-is speak
The beauty we love is very silent. It smiles softly to itself, but never speaks.
fancy gains reason
All myths that are something more than fancies gain rather than lose in value with time, by reason of the accretions of human experience.
oblivion neighbour
A wholesome oblivion of one's neighbours is the beginning of wisdom.
romance emergencies toys
Be it whim or emergency, the modern laboratory is equally at the service of romance, equally ready to gratify mankind with a torpedo or a toy.
wise fun men
In their work, then, as in their play, men and women are more and more coming to share with each other as comrades, and really the fun of life seems in no wise diminished as a consequence.
summer wine blood
All wines are by their very nature full of reminiscence, the golden tears and red blood of summers that are gone.
travel rome cities
All roads indeed lead to Rome, but theirs also is a more mystical destination, some bourne of which no traveller knows the name, some city, they all seem to hint, even more eternal.
daughter gratitude brother
Happy is the man who loves the woods and waters, Brother to the grass and well beloved of Pan; The earth shall be his, and all her laughing daughters. Happy the man.
wise easter heart
Celestial spirit that doth roll; The heart's sepulchral stone away, Be this our resurrection day, The singing Easter of the soul - O gentle Master of the Wise, Teach us to say: "I will arise."