Thomas Beecham was a pompous little band-master who stood against everything creative in the art of his time.

They looked down on her; and she looked up through them.

She's always looking for poetry and passion and sensitivity, the whole Romantic kitchen. I live on a rather simpler diet.' 'Prose and pudding?''I don't expect attractive men necessarily to have attractive souls.

I love making, I love doing. I love being to the full, I love everything which is not sitting and watching and copying and dead at heart.

He felt himself in suspension between the two worlds, the warm, neat civilization behind his back, the cool, dark mystery outside. We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.

Always we try to put the wild in a cage.

His statement to himself should have been, 'I possess this now, therefore I am happy', instead of what it so Victorianly was: "I cannot possess this for ever, and therefore am sad."