Walter de la Mare: Man

Walter de la Mare was English poet and fiction writer. Explore interesting quotes on man.

Walter de la Mare: 66 quotes 3 likes

“Once a man strays out of the common herd, he's more likely to meet wolves in the thickets than angels.”

Walter de la Mare

Source: The Return

Angels

“After all, what is every man? A horde of ghosts – like a Chinese nest of boxes – oaks that were acorns that were oaks. Death lies behind us, not in front – in our ancestors, back and back until…”

Walter de la Mare

Source: The Return

Death , Box

“Never the least stir made the listeners,
Though every word he spake
Fell echoing through the shadowiness of the still house
From the one man left awake:
Aye, they heard his foot upon the stirrup,
And the sound of iron on stone,
And how the silence surged softly backward,
When the plunging hoofs were gone.”

Walter de la Mare

The Listeners (1912)

Silence , Housing

“Oh, no man knows
Through what wild centuries
Roves back the rose.”

Walter de la Mare

All That's Past.