Louis MacNeice Quotes

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• A pharaoh's profile, a Krishna's grace, tail like a question mark.
• In my own prejudice.. I would have of a poet...whose worlds would not be too esoteric..fond of talking....capable of pity and laughter..appreciative of womem..involved in…
• 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…
• I am not yet born; Forgive me For the sins that in me the world shall commit, my words When they speak me, my thoughts…
• I am not yet born; O fill me with strength against those who would freeze my humanity.
• Let them not make me a stone and let them not spill me, otherwise kill me.
• Better authentic mammon than a bogus god.
• None of our hearts are pure, we always have mixed motives. Are self deceivers, but the worst of all Deceits is to murmur 'Lord, I…
• World is crazier and more of it than we think, Incorrigibly plural. I peel and portion A tangerine and spit the pips and feel The…
• World is suddener than we fancy it.
• September has come, it is hers Whose vitality leaps in the autumn, Whose nature prefers Trees without leaves and a fire in the fireplace. So…
• Some on commission, some for the love of learning, Some because they have nothing better to do Or because they hope these walls of books…
• 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 evening…

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