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“Still falls the Rain
At the feet of the Starved Man hung upon the Cross.
Christ that each day, each night, nails there, have mercy on us”

Still Falls the Rain (1940)

“Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?”

Quoted in Edith Sitwell, a Unicorn Among Lions (1981) by Victoria Glendinning, p. 54, and in An Uncommon Scold (1989) by Abby Adams, p. 74

“I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.”

Last words to her personal secretary (Elizabeth Salter) as she was being carried into an ambulance.
The Last Years of a Rebel (1967)

“The poet is a brother speaking to a brother of "a moment of their other lives" — a moment that had been buried beneath the dust of the busy world.”

"The Poet's Vision" (1959)

“The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves.”

The Last Years of a Rebel (1967)

“I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.”

As quoted in An Uncommon Scold (1989) by Abby Adams, p. 226

“People are usually made Dames for virtues I do not possess.”

Source: The Last Years of a Rebel (1967), p. 24

“See, see where Christ's blood streames in the firmament:
It flows from the Brow we nailed upon the tree Deep to the dying, to the thirsting heart
That holds the fires of the world, — dark-smirched with pain
As Caesar's laurel crown. Then sounds the voice of One who like the heart of man
Was once a child who among beasts has lain —
"Still do I love, still shed my innocent light, my Blood, for thee."”

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Still Falls the Rain (1940)

“Tall windows show Infinity;
And, hard reality,
The candles weep and pry and dance
Like lives mocked at by Chance. The rooms are vast as Sleep within;
When once I ventured in,
Chill Silence, like a surging sea,
Slowly enveloped me.”

"Clowns' Houses"
Clowns' Houses (1918)

“The poet is a brother speaking to a brother of "a moment of their other lives"”

a moment that had been buried beneath the dust of the busy world.
"The Poet's Vision" (1959)