The future comes like an unwelcome guest.

Never mind whom you praise, but be very careful who you blame.

The past is a funeral gone by.

The immediate success of the war poem anthologies ... proved that the war had aroused in a new public an ear for contemporary verse ... There has never before, in the world's history, been an epoch which has tolerated and even welcomed such a flood of verse as has been poured forth over Great Britain during the last three years.