William Plomer Quotes

It is a function of creative men to perceive the relations between thoughts, or things, or forms of expression that may seem utterly different, and to be able to combine them into some new form. Britten's Nocturne, for example, which unifies musically a group of poems by different hands, is a notable example of his power to connect the seemingly unconnected.

William Plomer

• Men
• Creativity
• Creative

The commonplace needs no defence,Dullness is in the critic's eyes,Without a licence life evolvesFrom some dim phase its own surprise;Under these yellow-twinkling elms,Behind these hedges trimly shorn,As in a stable once, so hereIt may be born, it may be born.

William Plomer

• Eye
• Born
• Surprise

Oh, the twenties and the thirties were not otherwise designedThan other times when blind men into ditches led the blind,When the rich mouse ate the cheese and the poor mouse got the rind,And man, the self-destroyer, was not lucid in his mind.

William Plomer

• Men
• Mind
• Rich

Patriotism is the last refuge of the sculptor.

William Plomer

• Lasts
• Patriotism
• Refuge

Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.

William Plomer

• Power
• inspirational
• Creativity

To keep a diary is to attempt a difficult literary form. Its effectiveness is likely to derive from a special blend of honesty and appetite for life that gives the power to record everyday happenings while magically freeing them from banality and triviality.

William Plomer

• Giving
• Difficult
• Everyday