Best Quotes by Basil Bunting (Top 7)
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Sooner or later we must absorb Islam if our own culture is not to die of anemia.
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Always carry a corkscrew and the wine shall provide itself.
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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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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.
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Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?
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To appreciate present conditions, collate them with those of antiquity.
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But their determination to banish fools foundered ultimately in the installation of absolute idiots.
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