Quotes by W. H. Davies - Page 1

As long as I love Beauty I am young.
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Long
Love Is
Young
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No matter where the body is, the mind is free to go elsewhere.
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Body
Matter
Mind
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Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.
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Food
Sympathy
Beer
Generosity
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What sweet, what happy days had I,When dreams made Time Eternity!
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Dream
Happy Day
Sweet
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The more help a person has in his garden, the less it belongs to him.
W. H. Davies / Poet
Gardening
Garden
Belongs
Less
Help
Him
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But cats to me are strange, so strange I cannot sleep if one is near.
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Cat
Sleep
Strange
Cats
Near
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It was the rainbow gave thee birth, and left thee all her lovely hues.
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Birth
Hue
Left
Lovely
Rainbow
Thee
Gave
Her
Hues
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What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare.
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Life
Humor
Stress
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I love thee for a heart that’s kind--not for the knowledge in thy mind.
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Heart
Kind
Mind
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What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare?
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Care
Stand
Full
No Time
Stare
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Now shall I walk or shall I ride? 'Ride,' Pleasure said; 'Walk,' Joy replied.
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Life
Hiking
Joy
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And hear the pleasant cockoo, loud and long - The simple bird that thinks two notes a song.
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Simple
Song
Thinking
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However careful a tramp may be to avoid places where there is abundant work, he cannot always succeed.
W. H. Davies / Poet
Work Always May
Abundant
Work Always Where
Tramp
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When I had money, money, O! I knew no joy till I went poor; For many a false man as a friend Came knocking all day at my door.
W. H. Davies / Poet
Men
Money
Doors
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I turned my head and saw the wind, Not far from where I stood, Dragging the corn by her golden hair, Into a dark and lonely wood.
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Dark
Hair
Lonely
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It has always been a wonder to me where my conversational power has gone: at the present time, I cannot impress the most ordinary men.
W. H. Davies / Poet
Impress
Ordinary
Present Time
Conversational
Time Power Men
Ordinary Men
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I like to see a good scientific bout by men who know the use of their hands but would rather walk twenty miles than see animals in strife.
W. H. Davies / Poet
Miles
Strife
Good Men Walk
Scientific
Twenty
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Pleasure's a Moth, that sleeps by day And dances by false glare at night; But Joy's a Butterfly, that loves To spread its wings in Nature's light.
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Butterfly
Night
Sleep
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I had made up my mind to find a woman to share my life: one who would leave London altogether and go with me into the green country and be satisfied.
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Green
Satisfied
Life Mind Me
Altogether
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I dislike society because conversation exhausts my brain more than silent thought - again, I cannot hold my water long enough for a prolonged conversation.
W. H. Davies / Poet
Society
Brain
Conversation
Dislike
Enough
Long
Silent
Water
Again
Cannot
Hold
Prolonged
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My own wandering blood comes from my seafaring grandfather, who, after he had left the sea and settled on shore, still governed his house by a ship's rules.
W. H. Davies / Poet
Blood
Grandfather
Sea
Shore
Rules
Governed
Wandering
Settled
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My impression of Americans from the beginning is of the best, and I have never since had cause to alter my mind. They are a kind, sympathetic race of people and naturally proud of their country.
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Impression
Sympathetic
Best Mind People
Naturally
Alter
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We were determined to be in the fashion, and to visit the various delightful watering places on Long Island Sound. Of course, it would be necessary to combine business with pleasure and pursue our calling as beggars.
W. H. Davies / Poet
Calling
Delightful
Determined
Long Island
Pursue
Beggars
Combine
Island
Visit
Watering
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It is not altogether shyness that now makes me unsuccessful in company. Sometimes it is a state of mind that is three parts meditation, that will not free the thoughts until their attendant trains are prepared to follow them.
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Meditation
Shyness
Unsuccessful
Altogether
Thoughts Mind Me
Attendant
Trains
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How the snow falls in the north! Flake on flake falling incessantly, until the small dingles are almost on a level with the uplands. It throws itself on the leaves of autumn, and holds them down in security from the strongest winds.
W. H. Davies / Poet
Autumn
Incessantly
Security
Snow
Almost
Itself
Falling
Small
Holds
Leaves
North
Throws
Winds
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Cockneys make good beggars. They are held in high esteem by the fraternity in America. Their resource, originality and invention, and a never-faltering tongue enable them to often attain their ends where others fail, and they succeed where the natives starve.
W. H. Davies / Poet
Esteem
Fraternity
Invention
Originality
Tongue
Attain
Beggars
Enable
Held
Natives
Resource
Starve
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There is quite a large clan of Scotties among American beggars. He is a good beggar for the simple reason that he is a good talker. Almost every Scotch beggar I met in the States of America was inclined to be talkative, and yet they all managed to conceal their private affairs.
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Beggar
Scotch
Talkative
Affairs
Among
Clan
Conceal
Talker
Inclined
Large
Met
Private
Simple Reason
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I don't suppose there is a more daring or more impudent rascal on earth than a good American beggar. It is always his boast that he has begged an ex-president, or the present one, and he claims to have received benefits from a number of well-known millionaires, actors, and prize-fighters.
W. H. Davies / Poet
Beggar
Benefits
Boast
Claims
Daring
Number
Suppose
Millionaires
Present
Rascal
Received
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It was a proof of Welsh good nature: so long as I had a friend that knew and could introduce me, the whole Welsh people would do anything to entertain, and would even neglect their business to do so. But as a stranger in Wales, it is difficult to break through their suspicion and mistrust.
W. H. Davies / Poet
Good Nature
Mistrust
Neglect
Proof
Stranger
Suspicion
Wales
Welsh
Entertain
Introduce
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I like to give pennies to children, but unfortunately, a man cannot do these things if he lives in a small village or town where his face is known and seen every day. For children take advantage, as I know to my cost, and would gather round him like hens around a farmer when he scatters grain.
W. H. Davies / Poet
Grain
Pennies
Village
Man Face Day
Farmer
Unfortunately
Round
Gather
Take Advantage
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Summer boarders often left clothes behind, and of what use were they to the landladies, for no rag-and-bone man ever called at their houses. The truth of the matter was that in less than a week I was well dressed from head to foot, all of these things being voluntary offerings, when in quest of eatables.
W. H. Davies / Poet
Clothes
Summer
Dressed
Foot
Houses
Quest
Voluntary
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Yes, I will spend the livelong day With Nature in this month of May; And sit beneath the trees, and share My bread with birds whose homes are there; While cows lie down to eat, and sheep Stand to their necks in grass so deep; While birds do sing with all their might, As though they felt the earth in flight.
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Home
Lying
Sheep
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Being in this fine mood, I spoke to a little boy, whom I saw playing alone in the road, asking him what he was going to be when he grew up. Of course I expected to hear him say a sailor, a soldier, a hunter, or something else that seems heroic to childhood, and I was very much surprised when he answered innocently, 'A man.'
W. H. Davies / Poet
Alone
Childhood
Fine
Heroic
Mood
Sailor
Seems
Soldier
Boy
Answered
Course
Saw
Hear
Hunter
Innocently
Something Else
Spoke
Surprised
Whom
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I had now been in the United States of America something like five years, working here and there as the inclination seized me, which, I must confess, was not often. I was certainly getting some enjoyment out of life, but now and then the waste of time appalled me, for I still have a conviction that I was born to a different life.
W. H. Davies / Poet
Conviction
Different Life
Enjoyment
Inclination
Now And Then
United States Of America
Waste
Life Time Me
Appalled
Confess
Seized
Waste Of Time
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Peace to these little broken leaves, That strew our common ground; That chase their tails, like silly dogs, As they go round and round. For though in winter boughs are bare, Let us not once forget Their summer glory, when these leaves Caught the great Sun in their strong net; And made him, in the lower air, Tremble - no bigger than a star!
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Dog
Strong
Summer
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I cannot see the short, white curls Upon the forehead of an Ox, But what I see them dripping with That poor thing's blood, and hear the ax; When I see calves and lambs, I see Them led to death; I see no bird Or rabbit cross the open field But what a sudden shot is heard; A shout that tells me men aim true, For death or wound, doth chill me through.
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Men
Animal
Blood
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Mother's father and brothers all took great interest in pugilism, and they knew the game well from much practice of their own. They were never so much delighted as when I visited them with a black eye or a bloody nose, at which time they would be at the trouble to give cunning points as to how to meet an opponent according to his weight and height.
W. H. Davies / Poet
Bloody
Cunning
Delighted
Eye
Height
Practice
Trouble
Weight
According
Time Great Mother
Time Great Game
Brothers
Meet
Nose
Opponent
Points
Took
Visited
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When on a summer's morn I wake, And open my two eyes, Out to the clear, born-singing rills My bird-like spirit flies. To hear the Blackbird, Cuckoo, Thrush, Or any bird in song; And common leaves that hum all day Without a throat or tongue. And when Time strikes the hour for sleep, Back in my room alone, My heart has many a sweet bird's song - And one that's all my own.
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Song
Summer
Sweet
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What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare. No time to stand beneath the boughs And stare as long as sheep or cows. No time to see, when woods we pass, Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass. No time to see, in broad daylight, Streams full of stars, like skies at night. No time to turn at Beauty's glance, And watch her feet, how they can dance. No time to wait till her mouth can Enrich that smile her eyes began. A poor life this if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare.
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Eye
Spiritual
Stars
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