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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Alexander Pope, William Blake, John Keats, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, William Wordsworth, W. H. Auden, John Milton, John Gay
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