I'm sorry to say my dear wife is a dreamer, and as she dreams she gets paler and leaner. Then be off to your Dream, with his fly-away hat, I stay with the girls who are happy and fat.

This is the simplest of all thoughts, that Death must come when we call, although he is a god.

Life in the [London] suburb is richer at the lower levels. At these levels the people are not self-conscious at all, they are at liberty to be as eccentric as they please, they do not know that they are eccentric.

It is an amiable part of human nature, that we should love our animals; it is even better to love them to the point of folly, than not to love them at all.

I don't think Auden liked my poetry very much, he's very Anglican.

My Muse sits forlorn She wishes she had not been born She sits in the cold No word she says is ever told.

Christianity in the suburb is cheerful. The church is a centre of social activity and those who go to church need never be lonely.