Quotes by : Louis MacNeice

World is suddener than we fancy it.

September has come, it is hersWhose vitality leaps in the autumn,Whose nature prefersTrees without leaves....

I would admit that poetry is something more than mere communication and that if that 'something more'....

For this reason poets and artists developed the doctrine of Art for Art's Sake. The community did not....

The rules or 'laws' of poetry are only tentative devices, an approximate scheme. There is no Sinaitic....

Everyone is not able, or inclined, to write poetry in the narrower sense any more than everyone is qualified....

Or because they hope these walls of books will deaden the drumming of the demon in their ears

But glad to have sat underThunder and rain with you,And grateful tooFor sunlight on the garden.

Their ghosts are gagged, their books are library flotsam,Some of their names - not all - we learnt in....

The Sunlight on the GardenThe sunlight on the gardenHardens and grows cold,We cannot cage the minuteWithin....