"The times are squalid. They always were. It……" — Basil Bunting
"The times are squalid. They always were. It is a poet's duty to hold the line."
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Basil Bunting
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11 Quotes by Basil Bunting
Basil Bunting has 11 quotes on this site.
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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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Men are fools to invest in real estate.
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The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion; and the confusion is infectious and destructive. It…
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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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In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.
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No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.
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A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time…
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Those from whose pocket the salary is drawn, and by whose appointment the officer was made, have always a right…
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We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.
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Doing what you do well is death. Your duty is to keep trying to do things that you don't do…
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Presidents have the right to nominate their own cabinet secretaries. But their nominees don't have a right to confirmation. Senators…
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