Basil Bunting quotes
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“Always carry a corkscrew and the wine shall provide itself.”
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“Men are fools to invest in real estate.”
-- Basil BuntingSource : Basil Bunting (2016). “The Poems of Basil Bunting”, p.10, Faber & Faber
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“Sooner or later we must absorb Islam if our own culture is not to die of anemia.”
-- Basil BuntingSource : Basil Bunting (2016). “The Poems of Basil Bunting”, Faber & Faber
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“I hate Science. It denies a man's responsibility for his own deeds, abolishes the brotherhood that springs from God's fatherhood. It is a hectoring, dictating expertise, which makes the least lovable of the Church Fathers seem liberal by contrast.”
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“Prose exists to convey meaning, and no meaning such as prose conveys can be expressed as well in poetry. That's not poetry's purpose.”
-- Basil BuntingSource : Basil Bunting (1994). “Three Essays”
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“Compose aloud: poetry is a sound. Never explain- your reader is as smart as you. Your reader is not just any reader, but is the rare one with ears in his head.”
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“Name and date split in soft slate a few months obliterate. 166”
-- Basil BuntingSource : 1966 Briggflatts.
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“Our doom is, to be sifted by the wind, heaped up, smoothed down like silly sands. We are less permanent than thought.”
-- Basil BuntingSource : 1925 Villon, pt.1.
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“Praise the green earth. Chance has appointed her home, workshop, larder, middenpit. Her lousy skin scabbed here and there by cities provides us with name and nation.”
-- Basil BuntingSource : Basil Bunting (2016). “The Poems of Basil Bunting”, p.48, Faber & Faber
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“All you can usually say about a poem or a picture is, 'Look at it, listen to it.' Whether you listen to a piece of music or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own.”
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“Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?”
-- Basil BuntingSource : Basil Bunting (2016). “The Poems of Basil Bunting”, Faber & Faber
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“But their determination to banish fools foundered ultimately in the installation of absolute idiots.”
-- Basil BuntingSource : Basil Bunting (2016). “The Poems of Basil Bunting”, p.66, Faber & Faber
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“The times are squalid. They always were. It is a poet's duty to hold the line.”
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“To appreciate present conditions, collate them with those of antiquity.”
-- Basil BuntingSource : Basil Bunting (2016). “The Poems of Basil Bunting”, p.12, Faber & Faber
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“The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion; and the confusion is infectious and destructive. It is confusing and destructive to try and explain anything in terms of anything else, poetry in terms of psychology.”
-- Basil Bunting
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