Creative Quotations from . . .
Basil Bunting
(1900-1985) born on
Mar 01
English poet. His greatest popularity was during the 1960s as the leader of British literary avant-garde.
 
   
F
To appreciate present conditions, collate them with those of antiquity."

R
"I hate Science. It denies a man's responsibility for his own deeds, abolishes the brotherhood that springs from God's fatherhood. It is a hectoring, dictating expertise, which makes the least lovable of the Church Fathers seem liberal by contrast."
A
Always carry a corkscrew and the wine shall provide itself.
N
"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."
K
Sooner or later we must absorb Islam if our own culture is not to die of anemia.


Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: ""Chomei at Toyama.""
R: "Letter, 1 Jan. 1947, to poet Louis Zukofsky; in "The Poetry of Basil Bunting, ch. 6, ed. Victoria Forde, 1991."
A: "In "The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection," AApex Software, 1994."
N: "Letter, Sept. 1932, to poet Louis Zukofsky; in "The Poetry of Basil Bunting," by Victoria Forde, ch. 2, 1991."
K: ""Omar Pound, Arabic and Persian Poems," Foreword, 1970."



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