Quotes by Edmund Blunden

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Mastery in poetry consists largely in the instinct for not ruining or smothering or tinkering with moments of vision.
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Cricket to us was more than play, it was a worship in the summer sun.
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I am for the woods against the world, But are the woods for me?
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They died in splendour, these who claimed no spark Of glory save the light in a friend's eye.
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Devise some creed, and live it, beyond theirs,Or I shall think you but their spendthrift heirs.
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Cricket to us was more than play,It was a worship in the summer sun.