All day long the door of the sub-conscious remains just ajar; we slip through to the other side, and return again, as easily and secretly as a cat.
More Quotes from Walter de La Mare:
That vanishing loveliness,That burdening breath,
No bond of life hath then,
Nor grief of death.
Walter De La Mare
Naught but vast sorrow was there - The sweet cheat gone.
Walter de La Mare
Too late for fruit, too soon for flowers.
Walter de La Mare
A lost but happy dream may shed its light upon our waking hours, and the whole day may be infected with the gloom of a dreary or sorrowful one; yet of neither may we be able to recover a trace.
Walter de La Mare
Nay, nay, sweet England, do not grieve!
Walter De La Mare
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Cats QuotesBased on Keywords: ajar, secretly
Every human being you see in the course of a day has a problem that's sucking up at least 70 percent of his or her radar.
Doug Coupland
If we turn to palaeontology to tell us about our biological evolution it is to prehistory that we look for evidence of the evolution of specifically human patterns of behaviour.
John G. D. Clark
I wish I had had my books when I was a kid, I do.
Paula Danziger