"Some on commission, some for the love of……" — Louis MacNeice
"Some on commission, some for the love of learning, Some because they have nothing better to do Or because they hope these walls of books will deaden The drumming of the demon in their ears."
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Louis MacNeice
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13 Quotes by Louis MacNeice
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A pharaoh's profile, a Krishna's grace, tail like a question mark.
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In my own prejudice.. I would have of a poet...whose worlds would not be too esoteric..fond of talking....capable of pity…
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Dublin was a glorious name in our family and had pleasurable associations of violence …Today I am so at home…
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I am not yet born; Forgive me For the sins that in me the world shall commit, my words When…
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I am not yet born; O fill me with strength against those who would freeze my humanity.
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Let them not make me a stone and let them not spill me, otherwise kill me.
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Better authentic mammon than a bogus god.
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None of our hearts are pure, we always have mixed motives. Are self deceivers, but the worst of all Deceits…
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World is crazier and more of it than we think, Incorrigibly plural. I peel and portion A tangerine and spit…
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World is suddener than we fancy it.
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September has come, it is hers Whose vitality leaps in the autumn, Whose nature prefers Trees without leaves and a…
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So they were married-to be the more together- And found they were never again so much together, Divided by the…
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