Louis MacNeice Quotes

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I am not yet born; O fill me
With strength against those who would freeze my
humanity, would dragoon me into a lethal automaton,
would make me a cog in a machine, a thing with
one face, a thing.

Louis MacNeice

Then twangling their bibles with wrath in their nostrils
From Bonehill Fields came Bunyan and Blake:
"Laredo the golden is fallen, is fallen;
Your flame shall not quench nor your thirst shall not slake."

Louis MacNeice

O early one morning I walked out like Agag,
Early one morning to walk through the fire
Dodging the pythons that leaked on the pavements
With tinkle of glasses and tangle of wire.

Louis MacNeice

It's no go the Yogi-Man, it's no go Blavatsky,
All we want is a bank balance and a bit of skirt in a taxi.

Louis MacNeice

Louis MacNeice

Louis MacNeice

Born: September 12, 1907

Died: September 3, 1963 (aged 55)

Bio: Frederick Louis MacNeice was an Irish poet and playwright. He was part of the generation of the Auden Group, also sometimes known as the "Thirties poets", that included W. H.

Known for:

Autumn journal (1939)
The burning perch (1963)
The Strings Are False
I crossed the Minch (1938)
The poetry of W. B. Yeats (1941)

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