Louis MacNeice Quotes - Page 2

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I am not yet born; O fill me
  With strength against those who would freeze my
  humanity, would dragoon me into a lethal automaton
  would make me a cog in a machine, a thing with
  one face, a thing

  Louis MacNeice

  Prayer, Humanity, Cogs

  'Prayer Before Birth' (1944)

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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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