The times are squalid. They always were. It is a poet's duty to hold the line.
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
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
Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent? - Basil Bunting
Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?
The times are squalid. They always were. It is a poet's duty to hold the line. - 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
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.
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
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…
Men are fools to invest in real estate. - Basil Bunting
Men are fools to invest in real estate.
Name and date split in soft slate a few months obliterate. 166 - Basil Bunting
Name and date split in soft slate a few months obliterate. 166
To appreciate present conditions, collate them with those of antiquity. - Basil Bunting
To appreciate present conditions, collate them with those of antiquity.
But their determination to banish fools foundered ultimately in the installation of absolute idiots. - Basil Bunting
But their determination to banish fools foundered ultimately in the installation of absolute idiots.
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