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 am not yet born O fill me with strength against those who would freeze my humanity.

Good poets have written in order to describe something or to preach something - with their eye on the....

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....

Fanfare for the MakersA cloud of witnesses. To whom? To what?To the small fire that never leaves the....

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....

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