Ruth Pitter
Ruth Pitter
Emma Thomas "Ruth" Pitter, CBE, FRSLwas a 20th-century British poet...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth7 November 1897
excited few good heard joy people wish work worth
Are you really going to see Lewis? One of the few people it's worth getting excited over, I think. I know he is a good poet. I daresay he never heard of me, but I wish you would tell him that his work is the joy of my life.
humanism liberal passed seems wreck
It seems to me that in our lifetime we have passed from the wreck of liberal humanism to the beginning of a new recognition of dogma: isn't it rather tremendous?
different glimpse mystery
But the summits of poetry are mysteries; they are shiftingly veiled, and those who catch the glimpses see different aspects of the transcendental; but they have seen something, and they come down with the glory lingering on them.