Spenser House

Famous quotes containing the words spenser and/or house:

“Sweet Thames, run softly, till I end my song.”
—Edmund Spenser (1552?–1599)

“Hours before dawn we were woken by the quake.
My house was on a cliff. The thing could take
Bookloads off shelves, break bottles in a row.
Then the long pause and then the bigger shake.
It seemed the best thing to be up and go.”
—William Empson (1906–1984)