Richard Le Gallienne Quotes

British writer (1866-1947)

Richard Thomas Le Gallienne (1866–1947) was an English man of letters, closely associated with the literary world of London in the 1890s; after that he lived in the US, without altering his period style. The American actress Eva Le Gallienne (1899–1991) was his daughter, by his second marriage.

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A paradox is a truth standing on its head in order to attract attention.

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

Art was a palace once, things great and fair, And strong and holy , found a temple there:

Time’s horses gallop down the lessening hill.

Yea, howso we dream, Or how bravely we do;
The end is the same, Be we traitor or true: And after the bloom And the passion is past
Death comes at last.

Dear Sister, You dream like mad, you love like tinder, you aspire like a star-struck moth - for what? That you may hive little lyrics, and sell to a publisher for thirty pieces of silver.