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Author - Louis MacNeice
Quotes by : Louis MacNeice
love
September has come, it is hersWhose vitality leaps in the autumn,Whose nature prefersTrees without leaves....
Me
I am not yet born O fill me with strength against those who would freeze my humanity.
birth
Prayer before BirthI am not yet born; O hear me.Let not the bloodsucking bat or the rat or the stoat....
Poetry
I would admit that poetry is something more than mere communication and that if that 'something more'....
Reason
For this reason poets and artists developed the doctrine of Art for Art's Sake. The community did not....
Life
The poet is a specialist in something which everyone practises. Herein, poetry differs from the other....
Rules
The rules or 'laws' of poetry are only tentative devices, an approximate scheme. There is no Sinaitic....
depressing
Or because they hope these walls of books will deaden the drumming of the demon in their ears
writing
Their ghosts are gagged, their books are library flotsam,Some of their names - not all - we learnt in....
sunlight
The Sunlight on the GardenThe sunlight on the gardenHardens and grows cold,We cannot cage the minuteWithin....
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