"And London shops on Christmas Eve Are strung with silver bells and flowers As hurrying clerks the City leave To pigeon-haunted classic towers, And marbled clouds go scudding by The many-steepled London sky"

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Source : John Betjeman (2005). “Faith and Doubt of John Betjeman: An Anthology of Betjeman's Religious Verse”, p.82, A&C Black

John Betjeman

#Flower Quotes #Clouds Quotes #Sky Quotes

“We had the IRA ceasefire in August 1994 and a lot of people assumed that a deal had been done - which wasn't right.”

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“Blessed be the discipline which makes me reach out my soul's roots into closer union with Jesus! Blessed be the dews of the Spirit which keep my leaf ever green! Blessed be the trials which shake down the ripe, golden fruits from the branches.”
“Life is a sheet of paper white / Whereon each one of us may write / His word or two, and then comes night.”
“I don't want to speak to two empty chairs.”
“If there are dominant teams, people enjoy discussing whether that's good or bad for the game, and if there aren't any dominant teams, then people enjoy discussing that.”
“It would seem to me that I was committing a theft if I were to let one day go by without doing some work.”
“Writing a poem is making music with words and space.”
“One of the things I enjoy the most is fishing.”

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