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Quotes from Borderline Ballads — William Plomer

1903–1973 South Africa

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It's so utterly out of the world!
So fearfully wide of the mark!
A Robinson Crusoe existence will pall
On that unexplored side of the Park —
Not a soul will be likely to call!

Borderline Ballads (1955)

The commonplace needs no defence,
Dullness is in the critic’s eyes,
Without a licence life evolves
From some dim phase its own surprise;
Under these yellow-twinkling elms,
Behind these hedges trimly shorn,
As in a stable once, so here
It may be born, it may be born.

Borderline Ballads (1955)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: William Plomer (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.