Rose Macaulay quotes

" Cranks live by theory, not by pure desire. They want votes, peace, nuts, liberty, and spinning-looms not because they love these things, as a child loves jam, but because they think they ought to have them. That is one element which makes the crank. " # Eccentricity # Peace # Love

" As to the family, I have never understood how that fits in with the other ideals --or, indeed, why it should be an ideal at all. A group of closely related persons living under one roof; it is a convenience, often a necessity, sometimes a pleasure, sometimes the reverse; but who first exalted it as admirable, an almost religious ideal? " # Family # Pleasure # Life and Living

" A hot bath! I cry, as I sit down in it! Again as I lie flat, a hot bath! How exquisite a pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigors, the austerities, the renunciation of the day. " # Freedom # Power # Hope

" Sleeping in a bed -- it is, apparently, of immense importance. Against those who sleep, from choice or necessity, elsewhere society feels righteously hostile. It is not done. It is disorderly, anarchical. " # Bed # Death and Dying # Choice

" "Take my camel, dear," said my aunt Dot, as she climbed down from this animal on her return from High Mass. " # Giving # Masses # Love

" Poem me no poems. " # Poetry and Poets