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
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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| 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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