"Can a moment of madness make up for…" — Basil Bunting

"Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?"

— Basil Bunting

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11 Quotes by Basil Bunting

Basil Bunting has 11 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Always carry a corkscrew and the wine shall provide itself.
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.…
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…
All you can usually say about a poem or a picture is, 'Look at it, listen to it.' Whether you…
Praise the green earth. Chance has appointed her home, workshop, larder, middenpit. Her lousy skin scabbed here and there by…
Whether you listen to a piece of music, or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug, or…

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More Age Quotes

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To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would… — Hannah Arendt
We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that. — J. J. Abrams
Education is the best provision for old age. — Aristotle
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. — Aristotle
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. — Aristotle
I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become… — Giorgio Armani
I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn't think I… — Paul Auster
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. — Matthew Arnold
You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real. — Victoria Abril
In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time.… — Brooks Atkinson
Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. — Margaret Atwood
For years I wanted to be older, and now I am. — Margaret Atwood

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