Basil Bunting Quotes

Always carry a corkscrew and the wine shall provide itself.
Basil Bunting

Wine, Shall, Carry

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

Age, Moment, Madness

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

Present, Appreciate, Conditions

The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion; and the confusion is infectious and destructive. It is confusing and destructive to try and explain anything in terms of anything else, poetry in terms of psychology.
Basil Bunting

Poetry, Try, Confusion

Whether you listen to a piece of music, or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug, or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own.
Basil Bunting

Music, Others, Picture

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Poet

Born: March 3, 1900

Died: 1985

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