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Basil Bunting quotes: And always the cutting out and the buggering about and the buggering about and the rewriting and so on ...

And always the cutting out and the buggering about and the buggering about and the rewriting and so on ...

Basil Bunting quotes: Men are fools to invest in real estate.

Men are fools to invest in real estate.

Basil Bunting quotes: 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.

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.

Basil Bunting quotes: But their determination to banish fools foundered ultimately in the installation of absolute idiots.

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

Basil Bunting quotes: The times are squalid. They always were. It is a poet's duty to hold the line.

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

Basil Bunting quotes: To appreciate present conditions, collate them with those of antiquity.

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

Basil Bunting quotes: The mason stirs.Words!Pens are too light.Take a chisel to write.

The mason stirs.
Words!
Pens are too light.
Take a chisel to write.

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

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

Basil Bunting quotes: Name and date split in soft slate a few months obliterate. 166

Name and date split in soft slate a few months obliterate. 166

Basil Bunting quotes: Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?

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

Basil Bunting quotes: Sooner or later we must absorb Islam if our own culture is not to die of anemia.

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

Basil Bunting quotes: Always carry a corkscrew and the wine shall provide itself.

Always carry a corkscrew and the wine shall provide itself.