Basil Bunting Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

9 Famous Quotes by Basil Bunting
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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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“Sooner or later we must absorb Islam if our own culture is not to die of anemia.”
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“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.”
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“To appreciate present conditions, collate them with those of antiquity.”
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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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“But their determination to banish fools foundered ultimately in the installation of absolute idiots.”
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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. It is far easier for a Hitler or a Stalin to find a mock-scientific excuse for persecution than it was for Dominic to find a mock-Christian one.”
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