You,” I said, “are sweet music in a distant room.
The essence of a sculpture must enter on tip-toe, as light as animal footprints on snow.
A vi'let on the meadow grew, That no one saw, that no one knew, It was a modest flower. A shepherdess pass'd by that way-- Light footed, pretty and so gay; That way she came, Softly warbling forth her lay.
It's very important for a writer to be unnoticed, as quiet and unnoticed as possible.
I could almost feel him near me, the way you can feel a fire's presence in a cold room.
How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!
All that is noble is in itself of a quiet nature, and appears to sleep until it is aroused and summoned forth by contrast.
The wind breathes not, and the wave Walks softly as above a grave.
I think there is a very quiet power in things that are not on screen.
There is in all visible things an invisible fecundity, a dimmed light, a meek namelessness, a hidden wholeness.
An ego should be like a warm breeze, never seen, just mildly sensed.
One of the rummy things about Jeeves is that, unless you watch like a hawk, you very seldom see him come into a room.
A fragrance is like a signature, so that even after a woman leaves the room, her fragrance should reveal she's been there.
