Quotes by : Louis MacNeice

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

Prayer before BirthI am not yet born; O hear me.Let not the bloodsucking bat or the rat or the stoat....

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

Let us thank God for valour in abstractionFor those who go their own way, will not kissThe arse of law....

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

The poet is a specialist in something which everyone practises. Herein, poetry differs from the other....

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

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