Henry Williamson Quotes
Quotations and aphorisms by Henry Williamson:
The bells cease, and the power goes from me, and I descend again to the world of the living; and if in some foolish confiding moment I try to explain why I want to re-live those old days, to tear the Truth out of the past so that all men shall see plainly, perhaps someone will say to me, 'Oh, the War! A tragedy - best forgotten.'
~Henry Williamson
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Education must be aimed at creating a wider imagination in the child, not at suppressing. The child's mind must be set free.
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Peace in Europe can only come through union in one economic system. The United States of Europe are overdue.
~Henry Williamson
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Regeneration can come only through a change of heart in the individual.
~Henry Williamson
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Music comes from an icicle as it melts, to live again as spring water.
~Henry Williamson
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Yet otters have not been hunters in water long enough for the habit to become an instinct.
~Henry Williamson
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If salt ocean is the Great Mother from whom all life has sprung, fresh water is the Nurse entrusted to nourish life within her wanderings and around her wave-lapped margins.
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Every gesture is a gesture from the blood, every expression a symbolic utterance... Everything is of the blood, of the senses.
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I must return to my old comrades of the Great War - to the brown, the treeless, the flat and grave-set plain of Flanders - to the rolling, heat-miraged downlands of the Somme - for I am dead with them, and they live in me again.
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True idealists are rare; they are the dedicated workers, who would, if need be, die at the stake.
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All the experience of the greatest city in the world could not withhold me.
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Since childhood she had walked the Devon rivers with her father looking for flowers and the nests of birds, passing some rocks and trees as old friends, seeing a Spirit everywhere, gentle in thought to all her eyes beheld.
~Henry Williamson
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The eldest and biggest of the litter was a dog cub, and when he drew his first breath he was less than five inches long from his nose to where his tail joined his back-bone.
~Henry Williamson
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All beauty is truth, and all truth is compassionate. Few know that; fewer still can express it.
~Henry Williamson
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Every country in every war fights for freedom.
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Authors are ordinary people who usually start to live apart, in the imagination, because they don't fit in with normal, healthy people.
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In future, lots of things will be made from beans and fibres grown on the farmers' fields. This new science is called chemurgy. Plastics, for industry, will come from the soil.
~Henry Williamson
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The slow rhythm of the body, the insistent rhythm of the wit, were they becoming irreconcilable in modern civilisation? The sedentary life, frustration and irritability; work with the body, fatigue - and peace of mind.
~Henry Williamson
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The tides which flow and lapse in the Bristol Channel are often distained by the freshets of many streams falling through wooded coombes below the moor.
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