Henry Williamson Quotes
Henry Williamson's confession feels raw and haunting, exploring betrayal and regret for those drawn to gritty, personal tales.
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'With the dried blood stiff on my temples I climbed the hill, cursing the satanic way of men, yet knowing myself vile, for they had not known what they were doing, but I betrayed an innocent; and the tears- weak, whiskey tears- would not wash from my brow the blood of a little brother.'
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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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Education must be aimed at creating a wider imagination in the child, not at suppressing. The childs mind must be set free.
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Authors are ordinary people who usually start to live apart, in the imagination, because they dont fit in with normal, healthy people.
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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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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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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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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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Yet otters have not been hunters in water long enough for the habit to become an instinct.
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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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Every country in every war fights for freedom.
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Music comes from an icicle as it melts, to live again as spring water.
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When the soil's fertility is being conserved instead of raped, when village life is a social unity, when pride of craftsmanship returns, when everyone works for the sake of adding beauty and importance to life, when every river is clean and bright, and the proud words 'I serve' are in everyone's heart and purpose. Then my country will be good enough for me.