Quotes by : Mary Stewart

Every time your work is read, you die several deaths for every word, and poetry is like being flayed....

Every man carries the seed of his own death, and you will not be more than a man. You will have everything;....

The essence of wisdom is to know when to be doing, and when it's useless even to try

Silence then, and the scent of apple trees, and the nightmare sense of grief that comes when a man wakes....

It is easier to call the storm from the empty sky than to manipulate the heart of a man; and soon, if....

To remember love after long sleep; to turn again to poetry after a year in the market place, or to youth....

The gods do not visit you to remind you what you know already.

At breakfast!' said Louise in an awed voice. 'A man who can read poetry at breakfast would be capable....

There are few men more superstitious than soldiers. They are, after all, the men who live closest to....

Used every man according to his capacity.