If I loved all the world as I do you, I shouldn't write books to it: I should only write letters to it, and that would be only a clumsy stage on the way to entire telepathy.

Quote by Laurence Housman

Topics: Letters Quotes

My failure, during the first five or six years of my art training, to get...

My failure, during the first five or six years of my art training, to get...

Two more years were to go by before I knew anything about William Blake. Many...

Two more years were to go by before I knew anything about William Blake. Many...

I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth;...

I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth;...

I have always been a writer of letters, and of long ones; so, when I...

I have always been a writer of letters, and of long ones; so, when I...

Suicide is possible, but not probable; hanging, I trust, is even more unlikely; for I...

Suicide is possible, but not probable; hanging, I trust, is even more unlikely; for I...

My brother used to say that I wrote faster than he could read. He wrote...

My brother used to say that I wrote faster than he could read. He wrote...

Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police...

Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police...

Life is the most versatile thing under the sun; and in the pursuit of life...

Life is the most versatile thing under the sun; and in the pursuit of life...

But it has also enabled me to find my feet as a lecturer and a...

But it has also enabled me to find my feet as a lecturer and a...

I shall not die young, for I am already near seventy: I may die old.

I shall not die young, for I am already near seventy: I may die old.

That was luck: I should not then have been a conscientious objector; but I am...

That was luck: I should not then have been a conscientious objector; but I am...

My best chance is that, in a happy moment, I hit upon St Francis as...

My best chance is that, in a happy moment, I hit upon St Francis as...

It is right and natural that generous minds while in the twenties should think the...

It is right and natural that generous minds while in the twenties should think the...

I had never thought of myself as a dramatist, and, for really good technical results,...

I had never thought of myself as a dramatist, and, for really good technical results,...

I believe absolutely in love being the central motive force of the universe.

I believe absolutely in love being the central motive force of the universe.

The mere dates of my existence do not interest me, except in one connection. When...

The mere dates of my existence do not interest me, except in one connection. When...

The modern form of things had begun to appeal to me, also (as material for...

The modern form of things had begun to appeal to me, also (as material for...

It is the sincerest thing I have written, caught by the drama of a soul...

It is the sincerest thing I have written, caught by the drama of a soul...

I still think that if the human race, or even one nation, could only get...

I still think that if the human race, or even one nation, could only get...

For the last half of my life I have had the doubtful benefit of a...

For the last half of my life I have had the doubtful benefit of a...