Better authentic mammon than a bogus god.

- Louis Macneice

I am not yet born; O fill me with strength against those who would freeze my humanity.

- Louis Macneice

blind wantons like the gulls who scream And rip the edge off any ideal or dream.

- Louis Macneice

Down the road someone is practicing scales, The notes like little fishes vanish with a wink of tails

- Louis Macneice

It's no go the merry-go-round, it's no go the rickshaw All we want is a limousine and a ticket for the peepshow.

- Louis Macneice

World is crazier and more of it than we think, Incorrigibly plural. I peel and portion A tangerine and spit the pips and feel The drunkenness of thin…

- Louis Macneice

World is suddener than we fancy it.

- Louis Macneice

Politics: distrust all parties but consider capitalism must go.

- Louis Macneice

The sunlight on the garden Hardens and grows cold, We cannot cage the minute Within its nets of gold

- Louis Macneice