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When I begin to eliminate from the list all those professions which are impossible from a financial point of view and then those which I feel disinclined to-it leaves nothing.

Those who have no hope pass their old age shrouded with an inward gloom.

The war effects me less than it ought. I can do no service to anybody by agitating for news or making dole over the slaughter.

The English say, Yours Truly, and mean it. The Italians say, I kiss your feet, and mean, I kick your head.

Numbers of the old people cannot read. Those who can seldom do.

My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.

I was a boy when I first realized that the fullest life liveable was a Poet's.

I find purer philosophy in a Poem than in a Conclusion of Geometry, a chemical analysis, or a physical law.

I don't ask myself, is the life congenial to me? But, am I fitted for, am I called to, the Ministry?

Flying is the only active profession I would ever continue with enthusiasm after the War.

Do you know what would hold me together on a battlefield? The sense that I was perpetuating the language in which Keats and the rest of them wrote!

Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose.

I am only conscious of any satisfaction in Scientific Reading or thinking when it rounds off into a poetical generality and vagueness.

Never fear: Thank Home, and Poetry, and the Force behind both.

After all my years of playing soldiers, and then of reading History, I have almost a mania to be in the East, to see fighting, and to serve.