Basil Bunting Quotes

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• Always carry a corkscrew and the wine shall provide itself.
• Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?
• But their determination to banish fools foundered ultimately in the installation of absolute idiots.
• 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…
• To appreciate present conditions, collate them with those of antiquity.
• The times are squalid. They always were. It is a poet's duty to hold the line.
• Men are fools to invest in real estate.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…

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