Louis MacNeice Quotes

Louis MacNeice
British Poet
Born: Sep 12, 1907
Died: Sep 3, 1963
Am Being Me Poet Think Without
Related authors: Christina Rossetti Elizabeth Bibesco George Herbert Helen Dunmore John Donne Lord Byron Samuel Butler Thomas Babington Macaulay
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
You Water Thought First Own Tea Action Out Promptly Give Voice Gives Individual Emotion He Takes Reactions Him Ready His Human Anything Again Then Teapot
A harrassed and dubious childhood under the hand of a well-meaning but barbarous mother's help from County Armagh led me to think of the North of Ireland as prison and the South as a land of escape. Louis MacNeice
Me Mother Prison Think County Well-Meaning Dubious South Led Hand Ireland Escape North Childhood Land Help
Broadcasting is plastic; while it can ape the press, it can also emulate the arts. Louis MacNeice
Broadcasting Press Also Emulate Arts While Ape Plastic
Let them not make me a stone and let them not spill me, otherwise kill me. Louis MacNeice
Me Otherwise Spill Make Stone Them
Style without content is bad style. Louis MacNeice
Style Bad Content Without
The rules or 'laws' of poetry are only tentative devices, an approximate scheme. There is no Sinaitic recipe for poetry, for the individual poem is the norm. Louis MacNeice
Recipe Approximate Rules Poem Laws Only Poetry Individual Scheme Devices Norm
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
Democracy Will Criticism Rest Damn Criticize Silly Layman Take Like His Very Improvement Any Often Fascists Plato Away Right Appreciate
I am not yet born; O fill me with strength against those who would freeze my humanity. Louis MacNeice
Strength Me Humanity Those Would Born Freeze Am Against Who Fill
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
Alone Myself Me Stars Waterloo Side Ran Carriage Constellations Between Checking Empty Rocking Train Wonderfully January Each Found Night
I am 33 years old, and what can I have been doing that I still am in a muddle? But everyone else is, too; maybe our muddles are concurrent. Louis MacNeice
Old Too Else Everyone Our Everyone Else Am Still Doing Been Years Maybe Muddle
Mysticism, in the narrow sense, implies a specific experience which is foreign to most poets and most men, but on the other hand, it represents an instinct which is a human sine qua non. Louis MacNeice
Experience Men Sense Other Poets Mysticism Instinct Implies Sine Most Narrow Foreign Hand Human Represents Which Specific
The individualist is an atom thinking about himself (Thank God I am not as other men); the communist, too often, is an atom having ecstasies of self-denial (Thank God I am one in a crowd). Louis MacNeice
God Thank God Men Thinking Too Other Atom About Having Crowd Individualist Self-Denial Himself Am Thank Often Communist
A poet should always be 'collaborating' with his public, but this public, in the mass, cannot make itself heard, and he has to guess at its requirements and its criticisms. Louis MacNeice
Poet Guess Collaborating Criticisms He Mass Make Always His Heard Itself Cannot Public Should Requirements
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
Speak Poet Difficult Others Statements Oneself Both Primarily Spokesman Himself Without Making Behalf Speaking
My birth was managed so rottenly that my mother had eventually to have a hysterectomy, after which she was ill off & on till she dies for obscure reasons when I was just 7. Louis MacNeice
Mother Birth Obscure Had She Till Off Dies Just After Which Ill Reasons Eventually
All the people I know have been conditioned by snobbery. Louis MacNeice
People Snobbery Know Been Conditioned
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
Waiting World Mind Revolution Nationalism Society Birth Pedigree Type Unable Torch Puppy Take Reactionary Make Make Up Am Question Up Irish Often Stable Regarded Midwife Even Why Assist
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
Satire Animals Practice Pessimist Thinking Evidence Machines Plenty Finds He Support Contemporary His Human Doomed Human Beings View Theory Beings Based Basically Lewis
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
Life Music Day Together Every Day Words Poet Painting Every Other Everyone Dancing Something Poetry Exception Puts Without Practise Does His Arts Which Even Specialist Differs
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
Music Words Feeling Lost Nursery Once Delicate Adult Demand Read Verse Than Children Rhymes Which Rhythm Pattern Far Many Nearly Appreciated
Before I joined the BBC I was, like most of the intelligentsia, prejudiced not only against that institution but against broadcasting in general. Louis MacNeice
Before Broadcasting General Only Joined Institution Like Most Intelligentsia Against Prejudiced
I have just finished my novel (rough draft). It is to be called 'Anacoluthon.' This will make the public think it is an historical romance. Louis MacNeice
Will Finished Think Make Historical Just Romance Public Novel Rough Draft

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