Lord, reserve for me a crown, And do not let my shares go down.

Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.

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.

It's strange that those we miss the most Are those we take for granted.

Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold.

History must not be written with bias, and both sides must be given, even if there is only one side.

People's backyards are much more interesting than their front gardens, and houses that back on to railways are public benefactors.

I ought to warn you that my verse is of no interest to people who can think.

And I think it was the outline of that church tower at Belaugh against the sky which gave me a passion for churches so that every church I've past since I've wanted to stop and look in.

And now, dear Lord, I cannot wait Because I have a luncheon date.

Topography is one of my chief themes in my poetry, about the country, the suburbs and the seaside. Then there comes love... and increasingly; the fear of death.

Is the height of my chara joy dependent on the depths of my eucharisteo thanks?

Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice.

To see someone you love, in a bad setting, is one of the great barometers of gratitude.

Music is an ocean, but the repertory is hardly even a lake; it is a pond.

The most important thing in your life is not what you do; it's who you become. That's what you will take into eternity.

A lot of times, people say that if you work hard and never give up, it will always work out, which is a great message. However, that's not always the case.

Thousands of present day students, like many of our Founding Fathers, are being taught at home.

The guns on the walls that surround the prison accurately, though unwittingly, index the true character of the penitentiary in our day.

Was his body made out of orange rocks and did he at any point yell 'It's clobbering time'?" "I find your attempt at levity inappropriate." "Consider me properly chastised.

I've always felt acting is a part of music.