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A pharaoh's profile, a Krishna's grace, tail like a question mark.

Louis MacNeice quotes: I do not envy any animal, though I envy many of their capacities.

I do not envy any animal, though I envy many of their capacities.

Louis MacNeice quotes: All the people I know have been conditioned by snobbery.

All the people I know have been conditioned by snobbery.

Louis MacNeice quotes: Broadcasting is plastic; while it can ape the press, it can also emulate the arts.

Broadcasting is plastic; while it can ape the press, it can also emulate the arts.

Louis MacNeice quotes: You can't express emotion without giving information.

You can't express emotion without giving information.

Louis MacNeice quotes: My sympathies are Left. On paper and in the soul. But not in my heart or my guts.

My sympathies are Left. On paper and in the soul. But not in my heart or my guts.

Louis MacNeice quotes: Self-assertion more often than not is vulgar, but a live and vulgar dog who keeps on barking is better than a dead lion, however dignified.

Self-assertion more often than not is vulgar, but a live and vulgar dog who keeps on barking is better than a dead lion, however dignified.

Louis MacNeice quotes: There seeps from heavily jowled or hawk-like foreign facesThe guttural sorrow of the refugees.

There seeps from heavily jowled or hawk-like foreign faces
The guttural sorrow of the refugees.

Louis MacNeice quotes: Thus were we weaned to knowledge of the WillThat wills the natural world, but wills us dead.

Thus were we weaned to knowledge of the Will
That wills the natural world, but wills us dead.

Louis MacNeice quotes: Or because they hope these walls of books will deaden the drumming of the demon in their ears

Or because they hope these walls of books will deaden the drumming of the demon in their ears

Louis MacNeice quotes: The sunlight on the gardenHardens and grows cold,We cannot cage the minuteWithin its nets of gold

The sunlight on the garden
Hardens and grows cold,
We cannot cage the minute
Within its nets of gold

Louis MacNeice quotes: Style without content is bad style.

Style without content is bad style.

Louis MacNeice quotes: I have just finished my novel (rough draft). It is to be called 'Anacoluthon.' This will make the public think it is an historical romance.

I have just finished my novel (rough draft). It is to be called 'Anacoluthon.' This will make the public think it is an historical romance.

Louis MacNeice quotes: Better authentic mammon than a bogus god.

Better authentic mammon than a bogus god.

Louis MacNeice quotes: It's no go the merry-go-round, it's no go the rickshawAll we want is a limousine and a ticket for the peepshow.

It's no go the merry-go-round, it's no go the rickshaw
All we want is a limousine and a ticket for the peepshow.

Louis MacNeice quotes: World is suddener than we fancy it.

World is suddener than we fancy it.

Louis MacNeice quotes: Before I joined the BBC I was, like most of the intelligentsia, prejudiced not only against that institution but against broadcasting in general.

Before I joined the BBC I was, like most of the intelligentsia, prejudiced not only against that institution but against broadcasting in general.

Louis MacNeice quotes: I am not yet born; O fill me with strength against those who would freeze my humanity.

I am not yet born; O fill me with strength against those who would freeze my humanity.

Louis MacNeice quotes: Politics: distrust all parties but consider capitalism must go.

Politics: distrust all parties but consider capitalism must go.

Louis MacNeice quotes: All experiment is made on a basis of tradition; all tradition is the crystallization of experiment.

All experiment is made on a basis of tradition; all tradition is the crystallization of experiment.

Louis MacNeice quotes: I am 33 years old, and what can I have been doing that I still am in a muddle? But everyone else is, too; maybe our muddles are concurrent.

I am 33 years old, and what can I have been doing that I still am in a muddle? But everyone else is, too; maybe our muddles are concurrent.

Louis MacNeice quotes: Time was away and somewhere else,There were two glasses and two chairsAnd two people with one pulse.

Time was away and somewhere else,
There were two glasses and two chairs
And two people with one pulse.

Louis MacNeice quotes: Down the road someone is practicing scales,The notes like little fishes vanish with a wink of tails

Down the road someone is practicing scales,
The notes like little fishes vanish with a wink of tails

Louis MacNeice quotes: I am at home in Dublin, more than in any other city.

I am at home in Dublin, more than in any other city.

Louis MacNeice quotes: Blind wantons like the gulls who screamAnd rip the edge off any ideal or dream.

Blind wantons like the gulls who scream
And rip the edge off any ideal or dream.

Louis MacNeice quotes: I am not yet born; O hear me.Let not the bloodsucking bat or the rat or the stoat or theclub-footed ghoul come near me.

I am not yet born; O hear me.
Let not the bloodsucking bat or the rat or the stoat or the
club-footed ghoul come near me.

Louis MacNeice quotes: I am more proud of what distinguishes man from the animals than of what he has in common with them.

I am more proud of what distinguishes man from the animals than of what he has in common with them.

Louis MacNeice quotes: Let them not make me a stone and let them not spill me, otherwise kill me.

Let them not make me a stone and let them not spill me, otherwise kill me.

Louis MacNeice quotes: The poet is a maker, not a retail trader.

The poet is a maker, not a retail trader.