{"author":"Hilaire Belloc","author_id":"Hilaire+Belloc","total_quotes":41,"quotes":[{"text":"It is the best of all trades to make songs  and the second best to sing them.","author":"Hilaire Belloc","tags":["music"],"id":3480,"author_id":"Hilaire+Belloc"},{"text":"We sit by and watch the barbarian. We tolerate him in the long stretches of peace  we are not afraid. We are tickled by his irreverence  his comic inversion of our old certitudes and our fixed creed refreshes us  we laugh. But as we laugh we are watched by large and awful faces from beyond  and on these faces there are no smiles.","author":"Hilaire Belloc","tags":["civilization"],"id":7963,"author_id":"Hilaire+Belloc"},{"text":"He [the poet] brings out the inner part of things and presents them to men in such a way that they cannot refuse but must accept it. But how the mere choice and rhythm of words should produce so magical an effect no one has yet been able to comprehend, and least of all the poets themselves.","author":"Hilaire Belloc","tags":["poetry"],"id":9014,"author_id":"Hilaire+Belloc"},{"text":"These are the advantages of travel, that one meets so many men whom one would otherwise never meet, and that one feeds as it were upon the complexity of mankind.","author":"Hilaire Belloc","tags":["travel"],"id":36677,"author_id":"Hilaire+Belloc"},{"text":"There's nothing worth the wear of winning but laughter  and the love of friends.","author":"Hilaire Belloc","tags":["friends"],"id":41521,"author_id":"Hilaire+Belloc"},{"text":"Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.","author":"Hilaire Belloc","tags":["life","sympathy","sun "],"id":49076,"author_id":"Hilaire+Belloc"},{"text":"The llama is a woolly sort of fleecy hairy goat  with an indolent expression and an undulating throat like an unsuccessful literary man.","author":"Hilaire Belloc","tags":["literature"],"id":54522,"author_id":"Hilaire+Belloc"},{"text":"Write as the wind blows and command all words like an army!","author":"Hilaire Belloc","tags":["writing"],"id":56095,"author_id":"Hilaire+Belloc"},{"text":"All that can best be expressed in words should be expressed in verse, but verse is a slow thing to create; nay, it is not really created: it is a secretion of the mind, it is a pearl that gathers round some irritant and slowly expresses the very essence of beauty and of desire that has lain long, potential and unexpressed, in the mind of the man who secretes it. God knows that this Unknown Country has been hit off in verse a hundred times...Milton does it so well in the Fourth Book of Paradise Lost that I defy any man of a sane understanding to read the whole of that book before going to bed and not to wake up next morning as though he had been on a journey.","author":"Hilaire Belloc","tags":["beauty","desire","milton","paradise-lost","poetry","verse","words","writing"],"id":60903,"author_id":"Hilaire+Belloc"},{"text":"From quiet homes and first beginning,Out to the undiscovered ends,There's nothing worth the wear of winning,But laughter and the love of friends.","author":"Hilaire Belloc","tags":["friends","poetry"],"id":73236,"author_id":"Hilaire+Belloc"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":41,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}