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Louis MacNeice Quotes

You can’t express emotion without giving information Picture Quote #1

I am at home in Dublin, more than in any other city Picture Quote #1

You know the worst: your wills are fickle, Your values blurred, your hearts impure And your past life a ruined church-- But let your poison be your cure Picture Quote #1

Mysticism, in the narrow sense, implies a specific experience which is foreign to most poets and most men, but on the other hand, it represents an instinct which is a human sine qua non Picture Quote #1

Nearly all children have a feeling for rhythm in words, for the delicate pattern of nursery rhymes. Many adults have lost this feeling and, if they read verse at all, demand a far cruder music than that which they once appreciated Picture Quote #1

Wyndham Lewis is basically a pessimist, thinking of human beings as doomed animals or determinist machines. His theory of satire is based on this view, and he finds plenty of evidence to support it in contemporary practice Picture Quote #1

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Good poets have written in order to describe something or to preach something - with their eye on the object or the end. The essence of the poetry does not lie in the thing described or in the message imparted but in the resulting concrete unity, the poem Picture Quote #1

Down the road someone is practicing scales, The notes like little fishes vanish with a wink of tails Picture Quote #1

For this reason poets and artists developed the doctrine of Art for Art’s Sake. The community did not appear to need them, so, tit for tat, they did not need the community. This being granted, it was no longer necessary or even desirable to make one’s poetry either intelligible or sympathetic to the community Picture Quote #1

I am not yet born; O hear me. Let not the bloodsucking bat or the rat or the stoat or the club-footed ghoul come near me Picture Quote #1

Nationalism of the Irish type is often regarded as reactionary. With the World Revolution and the Classless Society waiting for the midwife, why take a torch to the stable to assist at the birth of a puppy? Even if the puppy is pedigree. On this question I am unable to make up my mind Picture Quote #1

Though I do regard the Inquisition in general and the burning of Giordano Bruno in particular as blots on the history of the Roman Catholic Church, I am far from being actuated by hatred of that church, and in fact cannot imagine that European civilization would have developed or survived without it Picture Quote #1

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Why do we like being Irish? Partly because It gives us a hold on the sentimental English As members of a world that never was, Baptized with fairy water Picture Quote #1

Democracy - or any improvement on it - will rest on the layman’s right to criticize. His criticism will be often - very often - damn silly, but if, like Plato and the Fascists, we take away his right to criticize, we take away his right to appreciate Picture Quote #1

I am more proud of what distinguishes man from the animals than of what he has in common with them Picture Quote #1

The teapot takes in water and gives out tea. So the human individual takes in anything you give him and promptly transforms it; he is ready to give you out again his own reactions - first, in thought and emotion, then in voice or action Picture Quote #1

Politics: distrust all parties but consider capitalism must go Picture Quote #1

Better authentic mammon than a bogus god Picture Quote #1

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World is suddener than we fancy it Picture Quote #1

I am not yet born; O fill me with strength against those who would freeze my humanity Picture Quote #1

I am not yet born; o hear me. Let not the bloodsucking bat or the rat or the stoat or the clubfooted ghoul come near me Picture Quote #1

Let them not make me a stone and let them not spill me, otherwise kill me Picture Quote #1

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You can’t express emotion without giving information (Louis MacNeice Quotes) I am at home in Dublin, more than in any other city (Louis MacNeice Quotes) You know the worst: your wills are fickle, Your values blurred, your hearts impure And your past life a ruined church-- But let your poison be your cure. (Louis MacNeice Quotes) Mysticism, in the narrow sense, implies a specific experience which is foreign to most poets and most men, but on the other hand, it represents an instinct which is a human sine qua non. (Louis MacNeice Quotes) Nearly all children have a feeling for rhythm in words, for the delicate pattern of nursery rhymes. Many adults have lost this feeling and, if they read verse at all, demand a far cruder music than that which they once appreciated. (Louis MacNeice Quotes) Wyndham Lewis is basically a pessimist, thinking of human beings as doomed animals or determinist machines. His theory of satire is based on this view, and he finds plenty of evidence to support it in contemporary practice. (Louis MacNeice Quotes) Good poets have written in order to describe something or to preach something - with their eye on the object or the end. The essence of the poetry does not lie in the thing described or in the message imparted but in the resulting concrete unity, the poem. (Louis MacNeice Quotes) Down the road someone is practicing scales, The notes like little fishes vanish with a wink of tails (Louis MacNeice Quotes) For this reason poets and artists developed the doctrine of Art for Art’s Sake. The community did not appear to need them, so, tit for tat, they did not need the community. This being granted, it was no longer necessary or even desirable to make one’s poetry either intelligible or sympathetic to the community. (Louis MacNeice Quotes) I am not yet born; O hear me. Let not the bloodsucking bat or the rat or the stoat or the club-footed ghoul come near me. (Louis MacNeice Quotes) Nationalism of the Irish type is often regarded as reactionary. With the World Revolution and the Classless Society waiting for the midwife, why take a torch to the stable to assist at the birth of a puppy? Even if the puppy is pedigree. On this question I am unable to make up my mind. (Louis MacNeice Quotes) Though I do regard the Inquisition in general and the burning of Giordano Bruno in particular as blots on the history of the Roman Catholic Church, I am far from being actuated by hatred of that church, and in fact cannot imagine that European civilization would have developed or survived without it. (Louis MacNeice Quotes) Why do we like being Irish? Partly because It gives us a hold on the sentimental English As members of a world that never was, Baptized with fairy water (Louis MacNeice Quotes) Democracy - or any improvement on it - will rest on the layman’s right to criticize. His criticism will be often - very often - damn silly, but if, like Plato and the Fascists, we take away his right to criticize, we take away his right to appreciate. (Louis MacNeice Quotes) I am more proud of what distinguishes man from the animals than of what he has in common with them (Louis MacNeice Quotes) The teapot takes in water and gives out tea. So the human individual takes in anything you give him and promptly transforms it; he is ready to give you out again his own reactions - first, in thought and emotion, then in voice or action (Louis MacNeice Quotes) Politics: distrust all parties but consider capitalism must go (Louis MacNeice Quotes) Better authentic mammon than a bogus god (Louis MacNeice Quotes) World is suddener than we fancy it (Louis MacNeice Quotes) I am not yet born; O fill me with strength against those who would freeze my humanity (Louis MacNeice Quotes) I am not yet born; o hear me. Let not the bloodsucking bat or the rat or the stoat or the clubfooted ghoul come near me (Louis MacNeice Quotes) Let them not make me a stone and let them not spill me, otherwise kill me (Louis MacNeice Quotes)