I don't think I am any good. If I thought I was any good, I wouldn't be.
"Poetry" Mount Zion (1931)
"Prose" Ghastly Good Taste (1933)
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"Sir John Betjeman", Commander of the Order of the British Empire/CBE (; 28 August 190619 May 1984) was an English poet, writer and broadcaster who described himself in Who's Who (UK)/Who's Who as a "poet and Hack writer/hack". He was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1972 until his death.
He was a founding member of the Victorian Society and a passionate defender of Victorian architecture. Starting his career as a journalist, he ended it as one of the most popular British Poets Laureate and a much-loved figure on British television.
If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous poets! More John Betjeman on Wikipedia.Phone for the fish-knives, Norman, / As Cook is a little unnerved; / You kiddies have crumpled the serviettes / And I must have things daintily served.
Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold.
Miss J. Hunter Dunn, Miss J. Hunter Dunn,/ Furnish'd and burnish'd by Aldershot sun.
Come, friendly bombs, and fall on Slough. / It isn't fit for humans now.
But I'm dying now and done for, / What on earth was all the fun for? / For I'm old and ill and terrified and tight.
The Church's Restoration / In eighteen-eighty-three / Has left for contemplation / Not what there used to be.
Silver and ermine and red faces full of port wine.
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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