Quotes by Basil Bunting
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All you can usually say about a poem or a picture is, 'Look at it, listen to it.' Whether you listen to a piece of music or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own.
Source: On Poetry -
But their determination to banish fools foundered ultimately in the installation of absolute idiots.
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Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?
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Gin the goodwife stint
and the bairns hunger
the Duke can get his rent
one year longer.Source: Odes Gin the Goodwife Stint, I:14 -
Poetry? It's a hobby.
I run model trains.
Mr Shaw there breeds pigeons.
It's not work. You don't sweat.
Nobody pays for it.
You could advertise soap.Source: Odes What The Chairman Told Tom, II:6 -
Sooner or later we must absorb Islam if our own culture is not to die of anemia.
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The Duke can get his rent
and we can get our ticket
twa pund emigrant
on a C.P.R. packet.Source: Odes Gin the Goodwife Stint, I:14 -
The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion; and the confusion is infectious and destructive. It is confusing and destructive to try and explain anything in terms of anything else, poetry in terms of psychology.
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To appreciate present conditions, collate them with those of antiquity.
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Whether you listen to a piece of music, or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug, or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own.
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Who says it's poetry, anyhow?
My ten year old
can do it and rhyme.
Mr Hines says so, and he's a schoolteacher,
he ought to know.
Go and find workSource: Odes What The Chairman Told Tom, II:6
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