Humbert Wolfe Quotes

Humbert Wolfe CB CBE was an Italian-born British poet, man of letters and civil servant.

✵ 5. January 1885 – 5. January 1940
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Famous Humbert Wolfe Quotes

“You cannot hope
to bribe or twist,
thank God! the
British journalist.

But, seeing what
the man will do
unbribed, there's
no occasion to.”

"Over the Fire", from The Uncelestial City (London: Victor Gollancz, 1930) p. 30.

“The children play
At hide and seek
About the monument
To Speke.
And why should the dead
Explorer mind
Who has nothing to seek
And nothing to find?”

"Speke", from Kensington Gardens (London: Ernest Benn, [1924] 1927) p. 50.

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