Alfred Austin/a Poem - To England

Famous quotes containing the words austin, poem and/or england:

    “Certainly, then, ordinary language is not the last word: in
    principle it can everywhere be supplemented and improved upon, and superseded. Only remember, it is the first word.”
    —John Austin (1911–1960)

    “A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “Why should I go to England with her? Because you bid me, or because she wishes it,—or simply because England is the most damnable, Puritanical, God-forgotten, and stupid country on the face of the globe?”
    —Anthony Trollope (1815–1882)