john-betjeman

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I heard the church bells hollowing out the sky Deep beyond deep, like never-ending stars.
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People's backyards are much more interesting than their front gardens, and houses that back on to railways are public benefactors.
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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.
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I don't think I am any good. If I thought I was any good, I wouldn't be.
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History must not be written with bias, and both sides must be given, even if there is only one side.
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Oh prams on concrete balconies, what will your children see?
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For a full spring-tide of blossom seethed and departed hence, Leaving land-locked pools of jonquils by sunny garden fence.
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The dread of beatings! Dread of being late! And, greatest dread of all, the dread of games!
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Sing on, with hymns uproarious, Ye humble and aloof, Look up! and oh, how glorious He has restored the roof !
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And girls in slacks remember Dad, And oafish louts remember Mum.
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