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> [Dublin was a glorious name in our family and had pleasurable associations of violence …Today I am so at home in Dublin, more than in any other city, that I feel it has always been familiar to me … it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louis-macneice/dublin-was-a-glorious-name-in-our-family-and-had-pleasurable/)

[Louis MacNeice](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louis-macneice/)

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> [Today I am so at home in Dublin, more than in any other city, that I feel it has always been familiar to me. But, as with Belfast it took me years to penetrate its outer ugliness and dourness, so…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louis-macneice/today-i-am-so-at-home-in-dublin-more-than-in-any-other-city-that-i/)

[Louis MacNeice](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louis-macneice/)

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## Other authors on Dublin

- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b012/author-james-joyce-46443.jpg) James Joyce 9 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/dublin/james-joyce/)

## More by Louis MacNeice

> [World is crazier and more of it than we think, Incorrigibly plural.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louis-macneice/world-is-crazier-and-more-of-it-than-we-think-incorrigibly-plural/)

[Louis MacNeice](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louis-macneice/)

> [“Bagpipe Music' It's no go the merrygoround, it's no go the rickshaw, All we want is a limousine and a ticket for the peepshow.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louis-macneice/bagpipe-music-it-s-no-go-the-merrygoround-it-s-no-go-the-rickshaw-all/)

[Louis MacNeice](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louis-macneice/)

> [Let them not make me a stone and let them not spill me, otherwise kill me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louis-macneice/let-them-not-make-me-a-stone-and-let-them-not-spill-me-otherwise-kill/)

[Louis MacNeice](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louis-macneice/)

> [“Thus were we weaned to knowledge of the Will That wills the natural world, but wills us dead.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louis-macneice/thus-were-we-weaned-to-knowledge-of-the-will-that-wills-the-natural/)

[Louis MacNeice](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louis-macneice/)

> [Politics: distrust all parties but consider capitalism must go.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louis-macneice/politics-distrust-all-parties-but-consider-capitalism-must-go/)

[Louis MacNeice](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louis-macneice/)

> [“If war is the test of reality, then all poetry is unreal; but in that case unreality is a virtue.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louis-macneice/if-war-is-the-test-of-reality-then-all-poetry-is-unreal-but-in-that/)

[Louis MacNeice](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louis-macneice/)

> [“If war is the test of reality, than all poetry is unreal; but in that case unreality is a virtue.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louis-macneice/if-war-is-the-test-of-reality-than-all-poetry-is-unreal-but-in-that/)

[Louis MacNeice](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louis-macneice/)

> [Why do we like being Irish? Partly because It gives us a hold on the sentimental English As members of a world that never…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louis-macneice/why-do-we-like-being-irish-partly-because-it-gives-us-a-hold-on-the/)

[Louis MacNeice](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louis-macneice/)

> [A city built upon mud; A culture built upon profit; Free speech nipped in the bud, The minority always guilty. Why should I want…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louis-macneice/a-city-built-upon-mud-a-culture-built-upon-profit-free-speech-nipped/)

[Louis MacNeice](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louis-macneice/)

> [“Cradle Song for Eleanor”: Sleep, my darling, sleep; The pity of it all Is all we compass if We watch disaster fall. Put off…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louis-macneice/cradle-song-for-eleanor-sleep-my-darling-sleep-the-pity-of-it-all-is/)

[Louis MacNeice](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louis-macneice/)

> [A pharaoh's profile, a Krishna's grace, tail like a question mark.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louis-macneice/a-pharaoh-s-profile-a-krishna-s-grace-tail-like-a-question-mark/)

[Louis MacNeice](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louis-macneice/)

> [I was the rector's son, born to the anglican order, Banned for ever from the candles of the Irish poor; The Chichesters knelt in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louis-macneice/i-was-the-rector-s-son-born-to-the-anglican-order-banned-for-ever/)

[Louis MacNeice](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louis-macneice/)

> [Better authentic mammon than a bogus god.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louis-macneice/better-authentic-mammon-than-a-bogus-god/)

[Louis MacNeice](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louis-macneice/)

> [Dublin was a glorious name in our family and had pleasurable associations of violence …Today I am so at home in Dublin, more than…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louis-macneice/dublin-was-a-glorious-name-in-our-family-and-had-pleasurable/)

[Louis MacNeice](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louis-macneice/)

> [So they were married-to be the more together- And found they were never again so much together, Divided by the morning tea, By the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louis-macneice/so-they-were-married-to-be-the-more-together-and-found-they-were/)

[Louis MacNeice](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louis-macneice/)

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