Basil Bunting Quotes

Always carry a corkscrew and the wine shall provide itself.
BASIL BUNTING

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

Anemia Culture Islam
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.
BASIL BUNTING

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

Sand Silly
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.
BASIL BUNTING

Looks Matters
I hate Science. It denies a man’s responsibility for his own deeds, abolishes the brotherhood that springs from God’s fatherhood. It is a hectoring, dictating expertise, which makes the least lovable of the Church Fathers seem liberal by contrast.
BASIL BUNTING
To appreciate present conditions, collate them with those of antiquity.
BASIL BUNTING

Antiquity Conditions
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

Prose Wells
Men are fools to invest in real estate.
BASIL BUNTING

Fool Real
Name and date split in soft slate a few months obliterate. 166
BASIL BUNTING

Months Names Splits

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