Quote#Love
Dear Sister, You dream like mad, you love like tinder, you aspire…
Quote byRichard Le Gallienne · 1866–1947
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Opening Lines from Epistle Dedicatory, to his sister, Sissie Le Gallienne English Poems Copland & Day 1895 kindle ebook..
English (original)
Dear Sister, You dream like mad, you love like tinder, you aspire like a star-struck moth - for what? That you may hive little lyrics, and sell to a publisher for thirty pieces of silver.
— Richard Le Gallienne
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