All you can usually say about a poem or a picture is, 'Look at it, listen to it.' Whether you listen to a piece of music or a poem, or look at a pict…

- Basil Bunting

Prose exists to convey meaning, and no meaning such as prose conveys can be expressed as well in poetry. That's not poetry's purpose.

- Basil Bunting

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

- 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…

- Basil Bunting

The times are squalid. They always were. It is a poet's duty to hold the line.

- Basil Bunting

Name and date split in soft slate a few months obliterate. 166

- Basil Bunting

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

- Basil Bunting

Men are fools to invest in real estate.

- Basil Bunting

To appreciate present conditions, collate them with those of antiquity.

- Basil Bunting