Quotes by Louis Macneice - Page 2

The poet has no greater number of muscles than the ordinary conversationalist; he merely has more highly developed muscles and better coordination. And he practises his activity according to a stricter set of rules.
Louis Macneice / Poet
Coordination
Muscles
Ordinary
According
Developed
Merely
Stricter
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Wyndham Lewis is basically a pessimist, thinking of human beings as doomed animals or determinist machines. His theory of satire is based on this view, and he finds plenty of evidence to support it in contemporary practice.
Louis Macneice / Poet
Contemporary
Doomed
Evidence
Machines
Pessimist
Plenty
Satire
Theory
Finds
Lewis
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Everyone is not able, or inclined, to write poetry in the narrower sense any more than everyone is qualified to take part in a walking race. But just as all of us can and do walk, so all of us can and do use language poetically.
Louis Macneice / Poet
Qualified
Inclined
Narrower
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In January 1921, I found myself wonderfully alone in an empty carriage in a rocking train in the night between Waterloo and Sherborne. Stars on each side of me; I ran from side to side of the carriage, checking the constellations.
Louis Macneice / Poet
Constellations
Empty
January
Ran
Waterloo
Carriage
Checking
Rocking
Wonderfully
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Nearly all children have a feeling for rhythm in words, for the delicate pattern of nursery rhymes. Many adults have lost this feeling and, if they read verse at all, demand a far cruder music than that which they once appreciated.
Louis Macneice / Poet
Appreciated
Delicate
Nursery
Nearly
Pattern
Rhymes
Verse
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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 and laughter..appreciative of womem..involved in personal relationships...susceptible to physical impressions
Louis Macneice / Poet
Laughter
Prejudice
Talking
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It's no go the picture palace, it's no go the stadium, It's no go the country cot with a pot of pink geraniums. It's no go the Government grants, it's no go the elections, Sit on your arse for fifty years and hang your hat on a pension.
Louis Macneice / Poet
Government
Country
Years
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The teapot takes in water and gives out tea. So the human individual takes in anything you give him and promptly transforms it; he is ready to give you out again his own reactions - first, in thought and emotion, then in voice or action.
Louis Macneice / Poet
Action
Emotion
Individual
Reactions
Ready
Voice
Water
Again
Gives
Promptly
Takes
Teapot
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It's no go my honey love, it's no go my poppet;Work your hands from day to day, the winds will blow the profit.The glass is falling hour by hour, the glass will fall for ever,But if you break the bloody glass you won't hold up the weather.
Louis Macneice / Poet
Blow
Fall
Glasses
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When I went to bed as a child, I was told, 'You don't know where you'll wake up.' When I ran in the garden, I was told that running was bad for the heart. Everything had its sinister aspect - milk shrinks the stomach, lemon thins the blood.
Louis Macneice / Poet
Aspect
Garden
Milk
Ran
Shrinks
Sinister
Stomach
Wake Up
Lemon
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The poet is primarily a spokesman, making statements or incantations on behalf of himself or others - usually for both, for it is difficult to speak for oneself without speaking for others or to speak for others without speaking for oneself.
Louis Macneice / Poet
Behalf
Oneself
Statements
Primarily
Spokesman
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We are all fed from hundreds and thousands of hands. Often we do not know whose they are nor how they work. Only a few of us ever visualize the hands that grope in the coal mines or push levers in the mills or handle axes in the lumber camp.
Louis Macneice / Poet
Axes
Coal
Handle
Lumber
Mills
Mines
Camp
Fed
Hundreds
Push
Thousands
Visualize
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Democracy - or any improvement on it - will rest on the layman's right to criticize. His criticism will be often - very often - damn silly, but if, like Plato and the Fascists, we take away his right to criticize, we take away his right to appreciate.
Louis Macneice / Poet
Appreciate
Criticism
Damn
Democracy
Fascists
Improvement
Layman
Silly
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The poet is a specialist in something which everyone practises. Herein, poetry differs from the other arts. Everyone does not practise music or painting or even dancing, but everyone without exception puts together words poetically every day of his life.
Louis Macneice / Poet
Dancing
Exception
Painting
Poet
Practise
Arts
Differs
Puts
Specialist
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Good poets have written in order to describe something or to preach something - with their eye on the object or the end. The essence of the poetry does not lie in the thing described or in the message imparted but in the resulting concrete unity, the poem.
Louis Macneice / Poet
Concrete
Essence
Eye
Unity
Describe
Lie
Object
Poem
Preach
Resulting
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I would have a poet able bodied, fond of talking, a reader of the newspapers, capable of pity and laughter, informed in economics, appreciative of women, involved in personal relationships, actively interested in politics, susceptible to physical impressions.
Louis Macneice / Poet
Women
Appreciative
Capable
Economics
Involved
Laughter
Newspapers
Personal Relationships
Pity
Poet
Reader
Susceptible
Talking
Actively
Interested
Fond
Impressions
Informed
Personal
Physical
Relationships
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I am not yet born; Forgive me For the sins that in me the world shall commit, my words When they speak me, my thoughts when they think me, My treason engendered by traitors beyound me, My life when they murder by means of my hands, my death when they live me.
Louis Macneice / Poet
Hands
Mean
Thinking
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Nationalism of the Irish type is often regarded as reactionary. With the World Revolution and the Classless Society waiting for the midwife, why take a torch to the stable to assist at the birth of a puppy? Even if the puppy is pedigree. On this question I am unable to make up my mind.
Louis Macneice / Poet
Birth
Midwife
Nationalism
Pedigree
Puppy
Revolution
Stable
Type
Waiting
Assist
Make Up
Reactionary
Regarded
Torch
Unable
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Though I do regard the Inquisition in general and the burning of Giordano Bruno in particular as blots on the history of the Roman Catholic Church, I am far from being actuated by hatred of that church, and in fact cannot imagine that European civilization would have developed or survived without it.
Louis Macneice / Poet
Burning
Catholic
Catholic Church
Civilization
Inquisition
Regard
Roman Catholic
Roman Catholic Church
Survived
Developed
Roman
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Today I am so at home in Dublin, more than in any other city, that I feel it has always been familiar to me. But, as with Belfast it took me years to penetrate its outer ugliness and dourness, so with Dublin it took me years to see through its soft charm to its bitter prickly kernel - which I quite like too.
Louis Macneice / Poet
Home
Cities
Years
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For this reason poets and artists developed the doctrine of Art for Art's Sake. The community did not appear to need them, so, tit for tat, they did not need the community. This being granted, it was no longer necessary or even desirable to make one's poetry either intelligible or sympathetic to the community.
Louis Macneice / Poet
Desirable
Doctrine
Granted
Sake
Sympathetic
Appear
Developed
Intelligible
Poets
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My stepmother appeared when I was about 9. My brother was sent off to an institute in Scotland & my sister & I were sent to school. As my stepmother's ideas were then wholly Quaker, mixed with a naive & charming innocence & a little snobbery, it was one dotty epoch on top of another. I always remained terrified of my father.
Louis Macneice / Poet
Charming
Epoch
Innocence
Institute
Quaker
Scotland
Snobbery
Terrified
Appeared
Mixed
Remained
Stepmother
Wholly
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September has come, it is hers Whose vitality leaps in the autumn, Whose nature prefers Trees without leaves and a fire in the fireplace. So I give her this month and the next Though the whole of my year should be hers who has rendered already So many of its days intolerable or perplexed But so many more so happy. Who has left a scent on my life, and left my walls Dancing over and over with her shadow Whose hair is twined in all my waterfalls And all of London littered with remembered kisses.
Louis Macneice / Poet
Autumn
Kissing
Wall
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