Phrase by 'Louis MacNeice'
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Democracy - or any improvement on it - will rest on the layman's right to criticize. His criticism will be often - very often - damn silly, but if, like Plato and the Fascists, we take away his right to criticize, we take away his right to appreciate.
Author: Louis MacNeice - British PoetDemocracy , Rest , Appreciate , Improvement
Nationalism of the Irish type is often regarded as reactionary. With the World Revolution and the Classless Society waiting for the midwife, why take a torch to the stable to assist at the birth of a puppy? Even if the puppy is pedigree. On this question I am unable to make up my mind.
Author: Louis MacNeice - British PoetWaiting , I Am , Mind , Society
In writing 'A Portrait of Athens' I have attempted - rather impressionistically - to give a panorama of its present. But I have also brought in its past because I sincerely think that there is a continuity.
Author: Louis MacNeice - British PoetThink , Writing , Past , Portrait
The teapot takes in water and gives out tea. So the human individual takes in anything you give him and promptly transforms it; he is ready to give you out again his own reactions - first, in thought and emotion, then in voice or action.
Author: Louis MacNeice - British PoetYou , Thought , Water , Tea
Let them not make me a stone and let them not spill me, otherwise kill me.
Author: Louis MacNeice - British PoetMe , Make , Them , Stone
Dublin was hardly worried by the war; her old preoccupations were still preoccupations. The intelligentsia continued their parties; their mutual malice was as effervescent as ever.
Author: Louis MacNeice - British PoetWar , Old , Her , Still
I would have a poet able bodied, fond of talking, a reader of the newspapers, capable of pity and laughter, informed in economics, appreciative of women, involved in personal relationships, actively interested in politics, susceptible to physical impressions.
Author: Louis MacNeice - British PoetLaughter , Politics , Women , Economics
For this reason poets and artists developed the doctrine of Art for Art's Sake. The community did not appear to need them, so, tit for tat, they did not need the community. This being granted, it was no longer necessary or even desirable to make one's poetry either intelligible or sympathetic to the community.
Author: Louis MacNeice - British PoetNeed , Poetry , Community , Art
Style without content is bad style.
Author: Louis MacNeice - British PoetBad , Content , Without , Style
The rules or 'laws' of poetry are only tentative devices, an approximate scheme. There is no Sinaitic recipe for poetry, for the individual poem is the norm.
Author: Louis MacNeice - British PoetOnly , Poetry , Individual , Rules
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