Basil Bunting Quotes

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

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

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

Sooner or later we must absorb Islam if our own culture is not to die of anemia. - Basil Bunting

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. - Basil Bunting

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

But their determination to banish fools foundered ultimately in the installation of absolute idiots. - Basil Bunting

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