Basil Bunting Quotes

• Always carry a corkscrew and the wine shall provide itself.

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  Wine, Preparation

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• Our doom is, to be sifted by the wind, heaped up, smoothed down like silly sands. We are less permanent than thought.

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  Silly, Wind, Sand

  1925 Villon, pt.1.

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• Compose aloud: poetry is a sound. Never explain- your reader is as smart as you. Your reader is not just any reader, but is the rare one with ears in his head.

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  Smart, Sound, Ears

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• Sooner or later we must absorb Islam if our own culture is not to die of anemia.

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  Islam, Culture, Anemia

  Basil Bunting (2016). “The Poems of Basil Bunting”, Faber & Faber

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• Praise the green earth. Chance has appointed her home, workshop, larder, middenpit. Her lousy skin scabbed here and there by cities provides us with name and nation.

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  Home, Cities, Names

  Basil Bunting (2016). “The Poems of Basil Bunting”, p.48, Faber & Faber

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• But their determination to banish fools foundered ultimately in the installation of absolute idiots.

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  Determination, Fool, Idiot

  Basil Bunting (2016). “The Poems of Basil Bunting”, p.66, Faber & Faber

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• Prose exists to convey meaning, and no meaning such as prose conveys can be expressed as well in poetry. That's not poetry's purpose.

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  Purpose, Wells, Prose

  Basil Bunting (1994). “Three Essays”

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• Lo único que se puede decir de un poema o un cuadro es: "Míralo, escúchalo". Tanto si escuchas una pieza musical o un poema, como si miras un cuadro, una jarra o una escultura, lo que importa no es lo que tiene en común con otros de su clase, sino lo que es singularmente suyo.

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  What Matters, Jugs, Looks

  Basil Bunting (1999). “Basil Bunting on Poetry”

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• To appreciate present conditions, collate them with those of antiquity.

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  Appreciate, Conditions, Antiquity

  Basil Bunting (2016). “The Poems of Basil Bunting”, p.12, Faber & Faber

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• I hate Science. It denies a man's responsibility for his own deeds, abolishes the brotherhood that springs from God's fatherhood. It is a hectoring, dictating expertise, which makes the least lovable of the Church Fathers seem liberal by contrast.

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  Father, Hate, Spring

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• The times are squalid. They always were. It is a poet's duty to hold the line.

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  Lines, Poet, Duty

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• Men are fools to invest in real estate.

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  Real, Men, Fool

  Basil Bunting (2016). “The Poems of Basil Bunting”, p.10, Faber & Faber

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• Nombre y fecha hendidos en pizarra blanda unos meses obliterada. 166

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  Names, Splits, Months

  1966 Briggflatts.

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• Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?

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  Temptation, Age, Madness

  Basil Bunting (2016). “The Poems of Basil Bunting”, Faber & Faber

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• The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion; and the confusion is infectious and destructive. It is confusing and destructive to try and explain anything in terms of anything else, poetry in terms of psychology.

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  Confusion, Psychology, Confusing

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