Metro-Land (1973) quotes

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View Quote Poets laureate

View Quote Radio Talk. BBC Radio 4 (2 August 1978)

View Quote Radio Talk. BBC Third Programme (1949)

View Quote Radio Talk. BBC Third Programme (1949) 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.

View Quote Radio Talk: BBC Radio (4 July 1975)

View Quote Safe were those evenings of the pre-war worldWhen firelight shone on green linoleum,I heard the church bells hollowing out the sky,Deep beyond deep, like never-ending stars.

View Quote 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.

View Quote Sing on, with hymns uproarious,Ye humble and aloof,Look up! and oh how gloriousHe has restored the roof!

View Quote Stony seaboard, far and foreign,Stony hills poured over space,Stony outcrop of the Burren,Stones in every fertile place.

View Quote The Best of Betjeman, John Guest, Penguin Modern Classics, 1985. Written in 1948. (Blisland)

View Quote The Betjeman Society

View Quote The Poetry Archive entry for John Betjeman, with recordings of him reciting "A Subaltern's Love Song" and "Youth and Age on Beaulieu River" Retrieved from "https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=John_Betjeman&oldid=2854911" Categories:

View Quote The test of an abstract picture, for me, is not my first reaction to it, but how long I can stand it hanging on the wall of a room where I am living.

View Quote There are two things you need for a jolly good hymn. The first is a set of words that expresses the mood or sentiment of the worshipper. The second—and perhaps even more important—is a good tune … with a simple popular melody.[citation needed]

View Quote Title and sub-title of book (1933)