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John Betjeman Quotes
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Type: Poet Quotes Category: English Poet Quotes Date of Birth: August 28, 1906 Date of Death: May 19, 1984 Nationality: English Find on Amazon: John Betjeman Related Authors: Alexander Pope W. H. Auden Samuel Taylor Coleridge John Dryden Edward Young Percy Bysshe Shelley Alfred Lord Tennyson Herbert Read |
Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.
John Betjeman I don't think I am any good. If I thought I was any good, I wouldn't be. John Betjeman Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold. John Betjeman People's backyards are much more interesting than their front gardens, and houses that back on to railways are public benefactors. John Betjeman Silver and ermine and red faces full of port wine. John Betjeman Too many people in the modern world view poetry as a luxury, not a necessity like petrol. But to me it's the oil of life. John Betjeman |
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