8 Quotes & Sayings By Wh Davies

W.H. Davies was born in 1887 and, having left school at the age of twelve to work as a farm labourer, worked his way through many jobs, first as a collier and then as a farm labourer and carpenter. He became an active unionist and was elected Secretary of the Welsh Miners Union. He joined the Communist Party, and was involved in the 1920 General Strike, but became disillusioned with politics and left to become a teacher Read more

In 1922 he won a scholarship to Cambridge University to study philosophy and languages, where he began to write fiction. It was during this period that he acquired the pen name W.H. Davies; he also published poetry under that name.

His first book appeared in 1926 under the pseudonym William Davies; it was followed by The House: A Comedy (1932), The Green Carnation (1936), and The Years Between (1942). He died in 1974 .

What is this life if, full of care, We have...
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What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare? W.H. Davies
What is this life if, full of care, We have...
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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... W.H. Davies
What is this life so full of care, We don't...
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What is this life so full of care, We don't have time to stand and stare. W.H. Davies
This man has talent, that man genius And here's the...
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This man has talent, that man genius And here's the strange and cruel difference: Talent gives pence and his reward is gold, Genius gives gold and gets no more than pence. W.H. Davies
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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. W.H. Davies
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I love thee for a heart that’s kind--not for the knowledge in thy mind. W.H. Davies
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Cats — by day the most docile of God’s creatures, every one of them in the night enlisting under the devil’s banner — took the place by storm after the human voice had ceased. W.H. Davies