“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
“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
“Never the least stir made the listeners,Though every word he spakeFell echoing through the shadowiness of the still houseFrom 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)