British Poet

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    “Gaze not on swans, in whose soft breast,
    A full-hatched beauty seems to nest
    Nor snow, which falling from the sky
    Hovers in its virginity.”
    —Henry Noel, British poet, and William Strode, British poet. Beauty Extolled (attributed to Noel and to Strode)

    “Never forget that you are Germans. Never forget that you are Nazis!”
    —Edmund H. North, British screenwriter, and Lewis Gilbert. Admiral Lutjens (Karel Stepanek)

    “A poet would a-wishing go,
    And he wished love were thus and so.
    “If but it were,” he said, said he,
    “And one thing more that may not be,
    This world were good enough for me.””
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)