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Richard Le Gallienne, born on January 20, 1866, in France, and died on September 15, 1947. He was a British author, poet, playwright, and literary critic, known for his unique literary style and influence on British literature.

Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays

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The Quest of the Golden Girl

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The lonely dancer: and other poems

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Prose Fancies

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Prose Fancies (Complete)

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Richard Le Gallienne: a centenary memoi...

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The Junk-man, and Other Poems

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Silk Road

Author:Richard Le Gallienne

“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.”

Thinking Giving Humans Mean Evil Human Nature Greatness Willing Ready Goodness Ears Welcome Jealousy Reports Calumny Calumny Is

Book:Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays

Source: Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays

“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 Seems Forever Promise Meetings Parting Arriving Vanishing Departing

Book:Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays

Source: Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays

“Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founder's than any other agency in the world.”

World Done Religion Christianity Ideals Agency Organized Cynical Founders Retard

Book:The Religion of a Literary Man: (Religio Scriptoris)

Source: The Religion of a Literary Man: (Religio Scriptoris)

“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.”

Knows Seems Names Cities Travel Eternal Destination Rome Mystical Hints Traveller Bourne

Book:Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays

Source: Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays

“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!”

People Ifs Life Would Be Interesting Skills Interesting Life

Book:Prose Fancies

Source: Prose Fancies

“Time's horses gallop down the lessening hill.”

Horse Hills

Author:Richard Le Gallienne

“To all of us the thought of heaven is dear -Why not be sure of it and make it here?No doubt there is a heaven yonder too,But 'tis so far away - and you are near.Men talk of heaven, - there is no heaven but here;Men talk of hell, - there is no hell but here;Men of hereafters talk, and future lives,O love, there is no other life - but here.”

Men Heaven Hell Doubt Dear No Doubt Why Not Far Away Future Life

Author:Richard Le Gallienne

“The road recedes as the traveler advances, leaving a continuous present.”

Leaving Traveler

Author:Richard Le Gallienne

“The soul's a sort of sentimental wife, That prays and whimpers of the higher life.”

Soul Wife Praying Higher Sentimental

Book:Richard Le Gallienne: a centenary memoir-anthology

Source: Richard Le Gallienne: a centenary memoir-anthology

“You can't fake it. Bad writing is a gift.”

Writing Fake Bad Writing

Author:Richard Le Gallienne

“All wines are by their very nature full of reminiscence, the golden tears and red blood of summers that are gone.”

Gone Blood Tears Summer Red Wine Golden

Book:The Quest of the Golden Girl

Source: The Quest of the Golden Girl

“The beauty we love is very silent. It smiles softly to itself, but never speaks.”

Speak Love Is Quiet Silent Smile

Book:Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays

Source: Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays

“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.”

Men Love Wells Earth Water Laughing He Man Brother Gratitude Laughter Daughter Appreciation Woods Grass Beloved Cheer Thankfulness Cheerfulness Joyfulness

Book:The Junk-man, and Other Poems

Source: The Junk-man, and Other Poems

“Stay the course, light a star, Change the world where'er you are.”

World Inspirational Light Courses Stars Perseverance Changing The World Graduation Perserverance Inspirational Perseverance

Author:Richard Le Gallienne

“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."”

Source: The lonely dancer: and other poems

“A critic is a man created to praise greater men than himself, but he is never able to find them.”

Men Able Greater Praise Critics

Author:Richard Le Gallienne

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

Men Earth Too Much Bears Lonely Lonely Man

Book:The lonely dancer: and other poems

Source: The lonely dancer: and other poems

“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.”

Thinking Men Long Hands Seems Natural Tree Journey Feet Rocks Landscape Features

Book:Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays

Source: Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays

“A woman's beauty is one of her great missions.”

Beauty Missions Women's Beauty

Book:Prose Fancies (Complete)

Source: Prose Fancies (Complete)

“On the contrary, woman is the best equipped fighting machine that ever went to battle.”

Fighting Battle Machines Contrary

Book:Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays

Source: Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays

“I meant to do my work today But a brown bird sang in the apple tree And a butterfly flitted across the field And all the leaves were calling me.”

Today Nature Tree Fields Calling Bird Apples Brown Butterfly Apple Trees

Author:Richard Le Gallienne

“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.”

Needs Hands Romance Enemy Modern Serious Ministers Fancy Sympathetic Irresistible Lighters Modern Science Resourceful Helpers

Book:Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays

Source: Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays

“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.”

Romance Modern Mankind Ready Toys Emergencies Laboratory Whim Torpedoes

Book:Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays

Source: Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays

“A wholesome oblivion of one's neighbours is the beginning of wisdom.”

Oblivion Neighbour

Book:Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays

Source: Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays

“All myths that are something more than fancies gain rather than lose in value with time, by reason of the accretions of human experience.”

Humans Reason Values Loses Gains Myth Fancy Human Experience

Book:Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays

Source: Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays

“All religions have periods in their history which are looked back to with retrospective fear and trembling as eras of persecution, and each religion has its own book of martyrs.”

Book Periods Eras Persecution Martyr Trembling Retrospective

Book:Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays

Source: Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays

“If Romeo and Juliet make a tragedy of it nowadays, they have only to blame their own mismanagement, for the world is with them as it has never been before, and all sensible fathers and mothers know it.”

Ifs Knows World Mother Father Inspiring Tragedy Blame Sensible Mothers Day Juliet Mismanagement

Book:Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays

Source: Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays

“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.”

Men Play Seems Fun Wise Share Men And Women Consequence Comrade

Book:Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays

Source: Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays

“It is curious how, from time immemorial, man seems to have associated the idea of evil with beauty, shrunk from it with a sort of ghostly fear, while, at the same time drawn to it by force of its hypnotic attraction.”

Men Ideas Seems Evil Force Attraction Curious Hypnotic

Book:Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays

Source: Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays

“It is the fine excesses of life that make it worth living.”

Fine Excess Worth Living

Book:Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays

Source: Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays

“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.”

World Passion Growing Lovers Newspapers Generous Display Adventurous Sympathetic

Book:Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays

Source: Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays

“Perhaps we too seldom reflect how much the life of Nature is one with the life of man, how unimportant or indeed merely seeming, the difference between them.”

Men Differences Unimportant Seeming

Author:Richard Le Gallienne

“Races and nations are thus ever ready to believe the worst of one another.”

Believe Nations Race Worst Ready

Book:Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays

Source: Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays

“The spiritual element, the really important part of religion, has no concern with Time and Space, temporary mundane laws, or conduct.”

Important Spiritual Law Space Elements Concern Temporary Time And Space Mundane

Book:Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays

Source: Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays

“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.”

Imagination Perfect Half Mystery Elements Senses Strangeness

Book:Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays

Source: Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays

“Wild oats will get sown some time, and one of the arts of life is to sow them at the right time.”

Art Life Is Right Time Oats

Book:The Quest of the Golden Girl

Source: The Quest of the Golden Girl

“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.”

Way Long Facts Enjoy Youth Ultimate Melancholy Prophecy Long Way

Book:Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays

Source: Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays

“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.”

Faces Song Air Wind Flower Spring Winter Snow Beloved Streams Vanishing Treading Spring Flowers Winter Snow

Book:Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays

Source: Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays

“We have, of course, long since ceased to think of Nature as the sympathetic mirror of our moods, or to imagine that she has any concern with the temporal affairs of man.”

Thinking Men Long Courses Imagine Concern Mirrors Affair Mood Imagine That Sympathetic

Book:Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays

Source: Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays

About the Author

Born: January 20, 1866
Died: September 15, 1947
Known for: Author
Quotes: 40

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Vanishing Roads, and Other EssaysRelated source material

The Quest of the Golden GirlRelated source material

The lonely dancer: and other poemsRelated source material

Prose FanciesRelated source material

Prose Fancies (Complete)Related source material

Richard Le Gallienne: a centenary memoir-anthologyRelated source material

The Junk-man, and Other PoemsRelated source material

The Religion of a Literary Man: (Religio Scriptoris)Related source material

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