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.
Roy Campbell Quotes
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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| Birth: | 2nd October, 1901 |
| Death: | 23rd April, 1957 |
| Nationality: | South African |
| Profession: | Journalist, Poet |
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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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