Edmund Blunden Quotes

#1. 'Undertones of War' by Edmund Blunden seems to get less attention than the memoirs of Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves, but it is a great book.

Pat Barker

#2. We are willing to form an army like every independent country though we are still under occupation.

Khaled Mashal

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

Edmund Blunden

#4. Cricket to us was more than play,
It was a worship in the summer sun.

Edmund Blunden

#5. The freeway is the last frontier. It is unsurpassed as a training ground for the sharpening of survival skills.

Sheila Ballantyne

#6. Sometimes, when I've been staring too hard, I've noticed that I could see the circumference of my own eye.

Lucian Freud

#7. In Architecture there is a part that is the result of Logical Reasoning and a part that is created through the Senses. There is always a point where they Clash. I don't think Architecture can be created without that Collision.

Tadao Ando

#8. I am for the woods against the world, But are the woods for me?

Edmund Blunden

#9. The human sun god was a stomach-dropping, chest-popping, feet-sliding, shoulder-swaying, hip-rotating, flutter-inducing, liquid locomotive, and I was surrounded by women who couldn't wait to buy a ticket.

Colleen Houck

#10. Devise some creed, and live it, beyond theirs,
Or I shall think you but their spendthrift heirs.

Edmund Blunden

#11. Mastery in poetry consists largely in the instinct for not ruining or smothering or tinkering with moments of vision.

Edmund Blunden