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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.

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Famous Richard Le Gallienne Quotes

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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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