"The thing you know in the abstract, but which you have to see, is the vastness of the place and how little relationsh…"

"I tend to be an optimist about human nature but a political pessimist…I think we’re living in very, very scary times …"

"…I am absolutely not someone who thinks that politics is separate from the most intimate details of people’s lives…"

"Tolkien has become a monster, devoured by his own popularity and absorbed into the absurdity of our time. The chasm b…"

"O are you the boy Who would wait on the quay With the silver penny And the apricot tree?"

"Henry is thinking of his lute and of backgammon, Elizabeth follows the waving song, the mystery, Proud in her red wig…"

"Timothy Winters comes to school With eyes as wide as a football-pool, Ears like bombs and teeth like splinters: A bli…"

"At Morning Prayers the Master helves For children less fortunate than ourselves, And the loudest response in the room…"

"They are waiting for me somewhere beyond Eden Rock: My father, twenty-five, in the same suit Of Genuine Irish Tweed, …"

"Leisurely,They beckon to me from the other bank. I hear them call, 'See where the stream-path is! Crossing is not as …"