Basil Bunting Quotes

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

Temptation
The times are squalid. They always were. It is a poet’s duty to hold the line.
BASIL BUNTING

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

BASIL BUNTING

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

Fool
Praise the green earth. Chance has appointed her home, workshop, larder, middenpit. Her lousy skin scabbed here and there by cities provides us with name and nation.

BASIL BUNTING

Praise the green earth. Chance has appointed her home, workshop, larder, middenpit. Her lousy skin scabbed here and there by cities provides us with name and nation.
BASIL BUNTING

Cities Lousy Names
Compose aloud: poetry is a sound. Never explain- your reader is as smart as you. Your reader is not just any reader, but is the rare one with ears in his head.

BASIL BUNTING

Compose aloud: poetry is a sound. Never explain- your reader is as smart as you. Your reader is not just any reader, but is the rare one with ears in his head.
BASIL BUNTING

Ears Reader

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