Humbert Wolfe

Humbert Wolfe CB CBE (5 January 1885 – 5 January 1940) was an Italian-born English poet, biographer, literary critic, translator and civil servant. Hugely popular during his own lifetime, his poems have since fallen into neglect.

Quotes

 * The children play At hide and seek About the monument To Speke. And why should the dead Explorer mind Who has nothing to seek And nothing to find?
 * "Speke", from Kensington Gardens (London: Ernest Benn, [1924] 1927) p. 50.


 * Space is a wind that does not blow On Betelgeuse and time – oh time – is a bird, Whose wings have never stirred The golden avenues of leaves On Betelgeuse.
 * "Betelgeuse", from The Unknown Goddess (London: Methuen, [1925] 1927) p. 34.


 * You cannot hope to bribe or twist, thank God! the British journalist. But, seeing what the man will do unbribed, there's no occasion to.
 * "Over the Fire", from The Uncelestial City (London: Victor Gollancz, 1930) p. 30.