"It is man who has fallen, not the beasts: that is the message even for the irreligious, and to some extent salvation can be measured by his very treatment of them."
"The poets get a quizzical ahem. They reflect time, I am the very ticking."
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Source: Roy Fuller (1942). “The Middle of a War”
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