What did Basil Bunting mean by: The times are squalid. They always were. It is a poet’s duty to hold the line. - Basil Bunting Poet · England Copy
+ But their determination to banish fools foundered ultimately in the installation of absolute idiots. Feraz Zeid, December 27, 2023January 10, 2024, Basil Bunting, Determination, Fool, Idiot, 0 - Basil Bunting Poet · England
+ Sooner or later we must absorb Islam if our own culture is not to die of anemia. Feraz Zeid, December 28, 2023January 10, 2024, Basil Bunting, Culture, Islam, 0 - Basil Bunting Poet · England
+ Always carry a corkscrew and the wine shall provide itself. Feraz Zeid, September 6, 2023December 26, 2023, Basil Bunting, Preparation, Wine, 0 - Basil Bunting Poet · England
+ To appreciate present conditions, collate them with those of antiquity. Feraz Zeid, December 27, 2023January 10, 2024, Basil Bunting, Appreciate, Conditions, 0 - Basil Bunting Poet · England
It is better to expose ourselves to ingratitude than to neglect our duty to the distressed. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
You’re an Attorney. It’s your duty to lie, conceal, and distort everything, and slander everybody. - Jean Giraudoux Playwright · France
O woman! thou wert fashioned to beguile: So have all sages said, all poets sung. - Jean Ingelow Poet · England
I am not less poet; I am more conscious of all that I am, am not, and might become. - Jean Toomer Writer
The poet will not be satisfied with recording, the poet will have to transform. - Jeanette Winterson Author · England
