Children Quote by Louis MacNeice

World is crazier and more of it than we think, Incorrigibly plural.

— Louis MacNeice

“Bagpipe Music' It's no go the merrygoround, it's no go the rickshaw, All we want is a limousine and a ticket for the peepshow.…

— Louis MacNeice

Let them not make me a stone and let them not spill me, otherwise kill me.

— Louis MacNeice

“Thus were we weaned to knowledge of the Will That wills the natural world, but wills us dead.”

— Louis MacNeice

Politics: distrust all parties but consider capitalism must go.

— Louis MacNeice

“If war is the test of reality, then all poetry is unreal; but in that case unreality is a virtue.”

— Louis MacNeice

“If war is the test of reality, than all poetry is unreal; but in that case unreality is a virtue.”

— Louis MacNeice

Why do we like being Irish? Partly because It gives us a hold on the sentimental English As members of a world that never…

— Louis MacNeice

A city built upon mud; A culture built upon profit; Free speech nipped in the bud, The minority always guilty. Why should I want…

— Louis MacNeice

“Cradle Song for Eleanor”: Sleep, my darling, sleep; The pity of it all Is all we compass if We watch disaster fall. Put off…

— Louis MacNeice

A pharaoh's profile, a Krishna's grace, tail like a question mark.

— Louis MacNeice

I was the rector's son, born to the anglican order, Banned for ever from the candles of the Irish poor; The Chichesters knelt in…

— Louis MacNeice