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T.W.H. Crosland
(21 Jul 1865 - 23 Dec 1924)
English poet, author and journalist was an acerbic journalist, though in his poems he showed sympathy toward the downtrodden, the English soldier and the sick.
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Science Quotes by T.W.H. Crosland (4 quotes)
“You know that it is quite preposterous of you to chase rainbows,” said the sane person to the
poet.
“Yet it would be rather beautiful if I did one day manage to catch one,” mused the poet.
“Yet it would be rather beautiful if I did one day manage to catch one,” mused the poet.
— T.W.H. Crosland
'Dreams' in Little Stings (1907, 1908), 59.
The fool rushed to certain conclusions.
The middling man approached them warily, and with circumspection.
And the wise man, perceiving them from afar, decided to go round another way.
The middling man approached them warily, and with circumspection.
And the wise man, perceiving them from afar, decided to go round another way.
— T.W.H. Crosland
'Discretion' in Little Stings (1907, 1908), 140.
The morning stars sang together.
And a person of delicate ear and nice judgment discussed the singing at length, and showed how and wherein one star differed from another, and which was great and which was not.
And still the morning stars sang together.
And a person of delicate ear and nice judgment discussed the singing at length, and showed how and wherein one star differed from another, and which was great and which was not.
And still the morning stars sang together.
— T.W.H. Crosland
'Classification' in Little Stings (1907, 1908), 83.
They decided that all liars should be whipped.
And a man came along and told them the truth.
And they hanged him.
And a man came along and told them the truth.
And they hanged him.
— T.W.H. Crosland
'Truth be Hanged!' in Little Stings (1907, 1908), 19.