J. C. Squire

Sir John Collings Squire (2 April 1884 – 20 December 1958) was a British poet, writer, historian, and influential literary editor of the post-World War I period.

Quotes

 * God heard the embattled nations sing and shout "Gott strafe England" and "God save the King!" God this, God that, and God the other thing – "Good God!" said God, "I've got my work cut out!"
 * On the outbreak of the First World War, from Epigrams (1916).


 * It did not last: the devil, shouting "Ho. Let Einstein be," restored the status quo.
 * "In continuation of Pope on Newton" from Poems (1926); Squire is here extending upon the famous statement of Alexander Pope:
 * Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night: God said, Let Newton be! — and all was light.
 * As quoted in The Epigrammatists : A Selection from the Epigrammatic Literature of Ancient, Mediæval, and Modern Times (1875) by Henry Philip Dodd, p. 329.


 * The better production of our generation has been mainly lyrical and it has been widely diffused.
 * Selections from Modern Poets, Complete Edition (1927), p. vi.


 * And I've swallowed, I grant, a beer of lot - But 'I'm not so think as you drunk I am.
 * Ballade of Soporific Absorption (1931).


 * Now there once was a lass, and a very pretty lass, And she was an isotope's daughter
 * The Lass o' the Lab - A Modern Folksong.


 * At last incapable of further harm, The lewd forefathers of the village sleep.
 * If Gray had had to write his Elegy in the Cemetery of Spoon River instead of in that of Stoke Poges.