Roy Campbell Quotes

• I hate ‘Humanity’ and all such abstracts: but I love people. Lovers of ‘Humanity’ generally hate people and children, and keep parrots or puppy dogs.

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• Translations, like wives, are seldom faithful if they are in the least attractive.

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• Giraffes!—a People Who live between the earth and skies, Each in his own religious steeple, Keeping a light-house with his eyes.

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• He shouldered high his voluntary Cross, Wrestled his hardships into forms of beauty, And taught his gorgon destinies to sing.

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• Burn, with Athens and with Rome, A sacred city of the mind.

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• Write with your spade, and garden with your pen, Shove your couplets to their long repose. And type your turnips down the field in rows.

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• Of all the clever people round me here I most delight in Me—Mine is the only voice I care to hear, And mine the only face I like to see.

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• You praise the firm restraint with which they write— I’m with you there, of course: They use the snaffle and the curb all right, But where’s the bloody horse?

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• South Africa, renowned both far and wide For politics and little else besides.

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• You praise the firm restraint with which they write – I’m with you, there, of course: They use the snaffle and the curb all right, But where’s the bloody horse?

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Roy Campbell (10)

Birth:	2nd October, 1901
Death:	23rd April, 1957
Nationality:	South African
Profession:	Journalist, Poet

About

Roy Campbell was an Anglo-African poet and satirist. He was considered by T. S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas and Edith Sitwell to have been one of the best poets of the period between the First and Second World Wars.

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