Error is a hardy plant; it flourishes in every soil.
Oh Wasn't it naughty of Smudges? Oh, Mummy, I'm sick with disgust. She threww me in front of the judges, And my silly old collar-bone's bust.
Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.
Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold.
Norfolk would not be Norfolk without a church tower on the horizon or round a corner up a lane. We cannot spare a single Norfolk church. When a church has been pulled down the country seems empty or is like a necklace with a jewel missing.
On out 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!
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.
Life isn't measured in minutes, but in heartbeats.
however many resolutions one makes, one's pen, like water, always finds its own level, and one can't write in any way other than one's own.
I work, play and do everything in French.
All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred the safe side and the just side of a question is the generous side and the merciful side.