Ruth Pitter Quotes

• One’s homesickness for Heaven finds at least an inn there; and it’s an inn on the right road.

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• There were air raids at night. The factory was dark and dirty. And I remember thinking – well – I must find somebody or something because like this I cannot go on.

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• 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.

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• I had to be intellectually satisfied as well as emotionally because at that time of life one doesn’t just fall into it in adolescent emotion, and I was satisfied at every point that it was the one way and the hard way to do things.

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  Tags in Hard, Point

• And I used to assemble the family to hear because I thought that they were so good that even from the point of view of enjoyment people shouldn’t miss them, and I got every word of his that I could, and I could see by hard argument there was only the one way for it.

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• I am much interested and honoured by what you tell me of C. S. Lewis.

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  Tags in Interested, Honoured

• I would do any honest thing under the sun to know C. S. Lewis, and so am very grateful to you.

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  Tags in Honest, Grateful

• 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?

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  Tags in New, Beginning

Ruth Pitter (8)

Birth:	7th November, 1897
Death:	29th February, 1992
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Poet

About

Emma Thomas "Ruth" Pitter was a 20th century British poet. She was the first woman to receive the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 1955, and was appointed a CBE in 1979 to honour her many contributions to English literature. In 1974, she was named a "Companion of Literature", the highest honour given by the Royal Society of Literature.

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