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- I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business. — Henry David Thoreau
- For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history. — Tahar Ben Jelloun
- Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it. — George Bernard Shaw
- Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold. — John Betjeman
- Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows. — 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