Edmund Blunden Quotes & Sayings

They died in splendour, these who claimed no spark
Of glory save the light in a friend's eye. — Edmund Blunden

Devise some creed, and live it, beyond theirs,
Or I shall think you but their spendthrift heirs. — Edmund Blunden

Cricket to us was more than play,
It was a worship in the summer sun. — Edmund Blunden

Mastery in poetry consists largely in the instinct for not ruining or smothering or tinkering with moments of vision. — Edmund Blunden

I am for the woods against the world, But are the woods for me? — Edmund Blunden