Poetry Quote by Barbara Pym — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“She knew exactly how she ought to feel, for she was well read in our greater and lesser English poets, but the unfortunate fact was that she did not really like being kissed at all.”

“Letty allowed her to ramble on while she looked around the wood, remembering its autumn carpet of beech leaves and wondering if it could be the kind of place to lie down in and prepare for death when life became too much to be endured.”

“Poems are difficult to silence.”

“The answer to our existence lies in existence itself.”

“Maybe love was meant to save us from ourselves.”

“Many women are singing together of this:”

“I asked him then: 'What are you after?'”

“For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth; but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.”