John Betjeman, former English poet Laureate, was born in 1906. 10 quotes:
- I don't think I am any good. If I thought I was any good, I wouldn't be.
- Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.
- People's backyards are much more interesting than their front gardens, and houses that back on to railways are public benefactors.
- Saint Pancras was a fourteen-year old Christian boy who was martyred in Rome in AD 304 by the Emperor Diocletian. In England he is better known as a railway station.
- It's strange that those we miss the most Are those we take for granted.
- On our deathbeds we're not going to regret all the work we didn't do. We're going to regret all the sex we didn't have!
- History must not be written with bias, and both sides must be given, even if there is only one side.
- One mark of good verse is surprise.
- I ought to warn you that my verse is of no interest to people who can think.
- And now, dear Lord, I cannot wait Because I have a luncheon date.
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