You,” I said, “are sweet music in a distant room.
It's very important for a writer to be unnoticed, as quiet and unnoticed as possible.
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.
I could almost feel him near me, the way you can feel a fire's presence in a cold room.
All that is noble is in itself of a quiet nature, and appears to sleep until it is aroused and summoned forth by contrast.
How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!
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.
