Rose Fyleman quotes

“And though you should live in a palace of gold, or sleep in a dried up ditch, You could never be as poor as the fairies are, and never as rich.”
-- Rose Fyleman

Source : Rose Fyleman, “The Fairies Have Never A Penny To Spend”

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“Have you watched the fairies when the rain is done, Spreading out their little wings to dry them in the sun?”
-- Rose Fyleman

Source : Rose Fyleman, “Have You Watched The Fairies?”

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“Blind folk see the fairies. Oh, better far than we, Who miss the shining of their wings Because our eyes are filled with things We do not wish to see.”
-- Rose Fyleman

Source : Rose Fyleman, “White Magic”

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“I think mice Are rather nice. Their tails are long, Their faces small, They haven't any Chins at all.”
-- Rose Fyleman

Source : Rose Fyleman, Katja Bandlow, Neil Philip (2004). “Mary Middling and Other Silly Folk: Nursery Rhymes and Nonsense Poems”, p.23, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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“Deaf folk hear the fairies However soft their song; 'Tis we who lose the honey sound Amid the clamor all around That beats the whole day long.”
-- Rose Fyleman

Source : Rose Fyleman, “White Magic”

#Song Quotes #Angel Quotes #Long Quotes

“Lovers lying two and two Ask not whom they sleep beside, And the bridegroom all night through Never turns him to the bride.”

“The Sunflow'r, thinking 'twas for him foul shame To nap by daylight, strove t' excuse the blame; It was not sleep that made him nod, he said, But too great weight and largeness of his head.”

“I could not sleep when I got on such a hunt for an idea until I had caught it; ...This was a kind of passion with me, and it has stuck by me; for I am never easy now, when I am handling a thought, till I have bounded it north, and bounded it south, and bounded it east, and bounded it west.”

“I define "grindin'" as just nonstop work! Nonstop work, nonstop progress. Can't sleep during that grind - I mean, you get a little bit of it, but if you're progressin' at every hour, every second, you are grindin'.”

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“Speaking of sleeping bags, has anything ever had a less creative name?”

“Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters, diaries, bank statements and photographs, that they can play at the recording angel and tell the whole truth about another human life.”

“If I care to listen to every criticism, let alone act on them, then this shop may as well be closed for all other businesses. I have learned to do my best, and if the end result is good then I do not care for any criticism, but if the end result is not good, then even the praise of ten angels would not make the difference.”

“Ah, woman. She is an enigma. An anomaly of perfection & irony. She can lure angels into her arms & give birth to a nation of ideologies.”

“Hell was created for the devil and his angels. If you go, you are an intruder.”

“All the manifested world of things and beings are projected by imagination upon the substratum which is the Eternal All pervading Vishnu , whose nature is Existence- Intelligence ; just as the different ornaments are all made out of the same gold.”

Source : "Atma Bodh" translated by Swami Chinmayananda, Chinmaya Mission, (p. 16), 1987.