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" All the people I know have been conditioned by snobbery. "
Louis MacNeice
Been
Snobbery
People
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" The teapot takes in water and gives out tea. So the human individual takes in anything you give him and promptly transforms it; he is ready to give you out again his own reactions - first, in thought and emotion, then in voice or action. "
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Voice
Water
Action
" Wyndham Lewis is basically a pessimist, thinking of human beings as doomed animals or determinist machines. His theory of satire is based on this view, and he finds plenty of evidence to support it in contemporary practice. "
Louis MacNeice
Animals
Support
Practice
" I am more proud of what distinguishes man from the animals than of what he has in common with them. "
Louis MacNeice
I Am
Proud
More
" I would admit that poetry is something more than mere communication and that if that 'something more' could be abstracted from the whole, it might well prove to be that which makes the whole a poem. "
Louis MacNeice
Prove
Admit
Communication
" Nationalism of the Irish type is often regarded as reactionary. With the World Revolution and the Classless Society waiting for the midwife, why take a torch to the stable to assist at the birth of a puppy? Even if the puppy is pedigree. On this question I am unable to make up my mind. "
Louis MacNeice
Mind
Waiting
Revolution
" I do not envy any animal, though I envy many of their capacities. "
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Many
Envy
Though
" 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
Most
Before
Against
" Good poets have written in order to describe something or to preach something - with their eye on the object or the end. The essence of the poetry does not lie in the thing described or in the message imparted but in the resulting concrete unity, the poem. "
Louis MacNeice
Unity
Lie
Good
" For this reason poets and artists developed the doctrine of Art for Art's Sake. The community did not appear to need them, so, tit for tat, they did not need the community. This being granted, it was no longer necessary or even desirable to make one's poetry either intelligible or sympathetic to the community. "
Louis MacNeice
Art
Reason
Poetry
" In January 1921, I found myself wonderfully alone in an empty carriage in a rocking train in the night between Waterloo and Sherborne. Stars on each side of me; I ran from side to side of the carriage, checking the constellations. "
Louis MacNeice
Me
Train
Stars
" Let them not make me a stone and let them not spill me, otherwise kill me. "
Louis MacNeice
Stone
Me
Otherwise
" I am not yet born; O fill me with strength against those who would freeze my humanity. "
Louis MacNeice
Me
I Am
Humanity
" As things may turn out in the future, people may (though I doubt it) find that their work gives them all the enjoyment - physical, intellectual or aesthetic - which they may require. That certainly is not so now. "
Louis MacNeice
Future
Doubt
Aesthetic
" The poet is a specialist in something which everyone practises. Herein, poetry differs from the other arts. Everyone does not practise music or painting or even dancing, but everyone without exception puts together words poetically every day of his life. "
Louis MacNeice
Arts
Together
Music
" Some day I shall write a novel and call it 'A Walking Tour in the Congo' or 'Thrills and Spills in Aeronautics'; but I keep this type of title as a last & mercenary resort. "
Louis MacNeice
Walking
Call
Keep
" Everyone is not able, or inclined, to write poetry in the narrower sense any more than everyone is qualified to take part in a walking race. But just as all of us can and do walk, so all of us can and do use language poetically. "
Louis MacNeice
Poetry
Language
Race
" My birth was managed so rottenly that my mother had eventually to have a hysterectomy, after which she was ill off & on till she dies for obscure reasons when I was just 7. "
Louis MacNeice
Just
Birth
Mother
" 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
Draft
Historical
Romance
" We are all fed from hundreds and thousands of hands. Often we do not know whose they are nor how they work. Only a few of us ever visualize the hands that grope in the coal mines or push levers in the mills or handle axes in the lumber camp. "
Louis MacNeice
Handle
Hands
Know
" You can't express emotion without giving information. "
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You
Giving
Information
" Broadcasting is plastic; while it can ape the press, it can also emulate the arts. "
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Arts
Plastic
Press
" I am at home in Dublin, more than in any other city. "
Louis MacNeice
Than
More
I Am
" Dublin was hardly worried by the war; her old preoccupations were still preoccupations. The intelligentsia continued their parties; their mutual malice was as effervescent as ever. "
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Mutual
Malice
Her
" 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. "
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Still
Doing
Everyone
" Style without content is bad style. "
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Bad
Content
Style
" The poet is primarily a spokesman, making statements or incantations on behalf of himself or others - usually for both, for it is difficult to speak for oneself without speaking for others or to speak for others without speaking for oneself. "
Louis MacNeice
Without
Others
Poet
" Mysticism, in the narrow sense, implies a specific experience which is foreign to most poets and most men, but on the other hand, it represents an instinct which is a human sine qua non. "
Louis MacNeice
Men
Experience
Hand
" In writing 'A Portrait of Athens' I have attempted - rather impressionistically - to give a panorama of its present. But I have also brought in its past because I sincerely think that there is a continuity. "
Louis MacNeice
Think
Present
Portrait
" A harrassed and dubious childhood under the hand of a well-meaning but barbarous mother's help from County Armagh led me to think of the North of Ireland as prison and the South as a land of escape. "
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Me
Think
Land
" All the arts, to varying degrees, involve some kind of a compromise. This being so, how far need the radio dramatist go to meet the public without losing sight of himself and his own standards of value? "
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Meet
Value
Need