Ernest Rhys Quotes

United Kingdom, Writer
July 17, 1859 – May, 25, 1946.

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.

Ernest Rhys
- Night
- Bird
- Flight
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.

Ernest Rhys
- Tears
- Rain
- Sunlight

Words, like flowers, have their colors too.

Ernest Rhys
- Words
- Flowers
- Colors