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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.