Louis MacNeice Quotes - Page 2

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• There seeps from heavily jowled or hawk-like foreign faces
  The guttural sorrow of the refugees.

  Louis MacNeice

  Sorrow, Hawks, Faces

  'The British Museum Reading Room' (1941)

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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

  Laughter, Talking, Prejudice

  "Modern Poetry: A Personal Essay". Book by Louis MacNeice, 1938.

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• You know the worst: your wills are fickle,
  Your values blurred, your hearts impure
  And your past life a ruined church--
  But let your poison be your cure.

  Louis MacNeice

  Suicide, Heart, Past

  Louis MacNeice (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.3, Faber & Faber

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• a fortress against ideas and against the
  Shuddering insidious shock of the theory-vendors
  The little sardine men crammed in a monster toy
  Who tilt their aggregate beast against our crumbling Troy.

  Louis MacNeice

  Men, Ideas, Crumbling

  Louis MacNeice (2015). “Collected Poems”, p.44, Faber & Faber

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

  Louis MacNeice

  Stones, Killing, Kill Me

  'Prayer Before Birth' (1944)

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• And I envy the intransigence of my own
  Countrymen who shoot to kill and never
  See the victim's face become their own
  Or find his motive sabotage their motives.

  Louis MacNeice

  Envy, Faces, Killing

  Louis MacNeice (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.93, Faber & Faber

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