Hugh MacDiarmid Quote

Auden, MacNeice, Day Lewis, I have read them all,
Hoping against hope to hear the authentic call.
...
And I know the explanation I must pass is this
–You cannot light a match on a crumbling wall.


Collected Poems (1962)


Auden, MacNeice, Day Lewis, I have read them all, Hoping against hope to hear the authentic call. ... And I know the explanation I must pass is this...

Auden, MacNeice, Day Lewis, I have read them all, Hoping against hope to hear the authentic call. ... And I know the explanation I must pass is this...

Auden, MacNeice, Day Lewis, I have read them all, Hoping against hope to hear the authentic call. ... And I know the explanation I must pass is this...

Auden, MacNeice, Day Lewis, I have read them all, Hoping against hope to hear the authentic call. ... And I know the explanation I must pass is this...