"The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with……" — Basil Bunting
"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."
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Basil Bunting
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11 Quotes by Basil Bunting
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Always carry a corkscrew and the wine shall provide itself.
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Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?
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But their determination to banish fools foundered ultimately in the installation of absolute idiots.
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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.…
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To appreciate present conditions, collate them with those of antiquity.
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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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Men are fools to invest in real estate.
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All you can usually say about a poem or a picture is, 'Look at it, listen to it.' Whether you…
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Praise the green earth. Chance has appointed her home, workshop, larder, middenpit. Her lousy skin scabbed here and there by…
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Whether you listen to a piece of music, or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug, or…
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