Hilaire Belloc quotes
Write as the wind blows and command all words like an army!
Write as the wind blows and command all words like an army!
There is no loftier mission than to approach the Divinity nearer than other men, and to disseminate the divine rays among mankind.
The foundation of friendship demands the greatest likeness of human souls and hearts.
Men are not only together when they are with each other; even the distant and the dead live with us.
There is no greater pleasure for me than to practice and exhibit my art.
To me the highest thing, after God, is my honor.
I have always reckoned myself among the greatest admirers of Mozart, and shall do so till the day of my death.
There ought to be only one large art warehouse in the world, to which the artist could carry his art-works and from which he could carry away whatever he needed. As it is one must be half a tradesman.
I haven't a single friend; I must live alone. But well I know that God is nearer to me than to the others of my art; I associate with Him without fear, I have always recognized and understood Him, and I have no fear for my music,-it can meet no evil fate. Those who understand it must become free from all the miseries that the others drag with them.
One must not hold one's self so divine as to be unwilling occasionally to make improvements in one's creations.
Whoever tells a lie is not pure of heart, and such a person can not cook a clean soup.
Music is like a dream. One that I cannot hear.
I would rather write 10,000 notes than a single letter of the alphabet.
I do not cut my life up into days but my days into lives, each day, each hour, an entire life.
Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture.
Sharp nostalgia, infinite and terrible, for what I already possess.
I'll do humor about myself, I'll poke fun and everything, but that's me and I can do it to me. I think it's cruel to do it to somebody else.
You can't look in the face of adoration and be cruel.