Roy Campbell (poet) quotes

South Africa, renowned both far and wide For politics and little else beside. (Roy Campbell (poet))
Our spirits leaped, hosannas of destruction, Like desert lilies forked with tongues of fire. View quote
Roy Campbell (poet)
We shall not meet again: over the wave Our ways divide, and yours is straight and endless – But mine is short and crooked to the grave: Yet what of these dark crowds, amid whose flow I battle like a rock, aloof and friendless – Are not their generations, vague and endless, The waves, the strides, the feet on which I go? View quote
Roy Campbell (poet)
You praise the firm restraint with which they write – I'm with you there, of course: They use the snaffle and the curb all right, But where's the bloody horse? View quote
Roy Campbell (poet)