Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by Ernest Rhys

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English writer Ernest Rhys.
Last updated on November 22, 2024.
Ernest Rhys

Ernest Percival Rhys was a Welsh-English writer, best known for his role as founding editor of the Everyman's Library series of affordable classics. He wrote essays, stories, poetry, novels and plays.

With the wings of a bird and the heart of a man he compass'd his flight, And the cities and seas, as he flew, were like smoke at his feet. He lived a great life while we slept, in the dark of the night, And went home by the mariners' road, down the stars' empty street.
Words, like flowers, have their colors too. — © Ernest Rhys
Words, like flowers, have their colors too.
I saw the sunlight in a leafy place, Bathing itself in liquid green and amber-- Where every flower had tears hid in its petals, And every leaf was lovely with the rain.
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