"Ludlow....is probably the loveliest town in England with……" — John Betjeman
"Ludlow....is probably the loveliest town in England with its hill of Georgian houses ascending from the river Teme to the great tower of the cross-shaped church, rising behind a classic market building."
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John Betjeman
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18 Quotes by John Betjeman
John Betjeman has 18 quotes on this site.
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Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.
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Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold.
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What the Londoner sees in his mind’s eye is that cluster of towers and pinnacles seen from Pentonville Hill and…
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Oh Wasn't it naughty of Smudges? Oh, Mummy, I'm sick with disgust. She threww me in front of the judges,…
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Too many people in the modern world view poetry as a luxury, not a necessity like petrol. But to me…
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I ought to warn you that my verse is of no interest to people who can think.
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Hymns are the poetry of the people.
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Topography is one of my chief themes in my poetry..about the country, the suburbs and the seaside... then there come's…
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There are two thing you need for a jolly good hymn.The first is a set of words that expresses the…
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Hymn tunes are the nearest we've got to English folk music..
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One mark of good verse is surprise
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I have a Vision of the Future, chum. The workers flats in fields of soya beans tower up like silver…
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More Ascending Quotes
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To me there never has been a higher source of honour or distinction than that connected with advances in science.…
— Humphry Davy
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Without deductive logic science would be entirely useless. It is merely a barren game to ascend from the particular to…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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The gratitude ascending from man to God is the supreme transaction between heaven and earth.
— Albert Schweitzer
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Remember that in ascending to the Father You could not leave us orphans; And in making yourself a prisoner on…
— Therese of Lisieux
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Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Whoever considers the Attributes of Allaah to be like the attributes of the creation, such that the Istawaa of Allaah…
— Ibn Taymiyyah
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Being or nothing, that is the question. Ascending, descending, coming, going, a man does so much that in the end…
— Raymond Queneau
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NOTORIETY, n. The fame of one's competitor for public honors. The kind of renown most accessible and acceptable to mediocrity.…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Quiet solitude is a nutritional need of the ascending body.
— Doreen Virtue
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Let us labor for that larger comprehension of truth, and that more thorough repudiation of error, which shall make the…
— Horace Mann
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It is in the union of the Ascending and the Descending currents that harmony is found, and not in any…
— Ken Wilber
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An epiphany enables you to sense creation not as something completed, but as constantly becoming, evolving, ascending. This transports you…
— Abraham Isaac Kook
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