Duty Quote by Basil Bunting Download Open image “The times are squalid. They always were. It is a poet's duty to hold the line.” — Basil Bunting ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Duty Lines Poet Poetry Time
Time eateth all things, could old poets say, The times are chang'd, our times drink all away. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Part of the glamour of being a poet was always this long reach into the future. You knew you were managing time. — Eileen Myles Copy Share Image
The Times are the masquerade of the eternities; trivial to the dull, tokens of noble and majestic agents to the wise; the receptacle in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“I still maintain that the times get precisely the literature that they deserve, and that if the writing of this period is gloomy the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the end, time is the best ally of poets. It clarifies their works and makes them accessible to an ever widening circle of… — Mieczyslaw Jastrun Copy Share Image
You are all right on time, except for the fact that time is the enemy of us all, and especially of the writer. — Maxwell Perkins Copy Share Image
Periods' are largely an invention of the historians. The poets themselves are not conscious of living in any period and refuse to conform to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Poets and kings are but the clerks of Time, Tiering the same dull webs of discontent, Clipping the same sad alnage of the years. — Edwin Arlington Robinson Copy Share Image
“The late twentieth century has been the locus of a new lurch on English’s time line in America, where oratorical, poetic, and compositional craft… — John McWhorter Copy Share Image
“The mason stirs. Words! Pens are too light. Take a chisel to write.” — Basil Bunting Copy Share Image
But their determination to banish fools foundered ultimately in the installation of absolute idiots. — Basil Bunting Copy Share Image
All you can usually say about a poem or a picture is, 'Look at it, listen to it.' Whether you listen to a piece… — Basil Bunting Copy Share Image
“It tastes good, garlic and salt in it, with the half-sweet white wine of Orvieto on scanty grass under great trees where the ramparts… — Basil Bunting Copy Share Image
Praise the green earth. Chance has appointed her home, workshop, larder, middenpit. Her lousy skin scabbed here and there by cities provides us with… — Basil Bunting Copy Share Image
The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion; and the confusion is infectious and destructive. It is confusing and destructive… — Basil Bunting Copy Share Image
To appreciate present conditions, collate them with those of antiquity. — Basil Bunting Copy Share Image
Whether you listen to a piece of music, or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug, or a piece of sculpture,… — Basil Bunting Copy Share Image
Compose aloud: poetry is a sound. Never explain- your reader is as smart as you. Your reader is not just any reader, but is… — Basil Bunting Copy Share Image
I pray that wherever we are and whatever duties we have in the priesthood of God, we will be united in the cause to… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
Few political debates have been as divisive as the European one. I fought as hard as I could on the Remain side, but I… — Damian Green Copy Share Image
I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had… — Rupert Murdoch Copy Share Image
“Is that what they teach you at the convent? That the gods demand the hearts from our bodies?” — Robin LaFevers Copy Share Image
The less we show our love to a woman, Or please her less, and neglect our duty, The more we trap and ruin her… — Alexander Pushkin Copy Share Image
We can find common qualities and common values that have made Britain the country it is. Our belief in tolerance and liberty which shines… — Gordon Brown Copy Share Image
Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“You have a right to be sad, and a duty to move on. Only wins who wipes the tears, gather strength and move forward.” — Augusto Branco Copy Share Image
Our duty as Christians is always to keep heaven in our eye and earth under our feet. — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
May God bless each of us in our calls to serve. May our faith strengthen as we serve in righteousness, faithfully keeping the commandments.… — L. Tom Perry Copy Share Image
Regardless of how you feel about war and peace those serving military are doing a duty for the rest of us and they're protecting… — Linda Cardellini Copy Share Image
