Louis Macneice Quotes

When our brother Fire was having his dog's day / Jumping the London streets with millions of tin cans / Clanking at his tail, we heard some shadow say / `Give the dog a bone'. - Louis MacNeice

The sunlight in the garden
Hardens and grows cold,
We cannot cage the minute
Within its nets of gold. - Louis MacNeice

Some on commission, some for the love of learning, Some because they have nothing better to do Or because they hope these walls of books will deaden The drumming of the demon in their ears. - Louis MacNeice

So they were married-to be the more together- And found they were never again so much together, Divided by the morning tea, By the evening paper, By children and tradesmen's bills. - Louis MacNeice

Our freedom as free lances
advances toward its end;
The earth compels, upon it
Sonnets and birds descend;
And soon my friend
We shall have no time for dances. - Louis MacNeice

Let them not make me a stone and let them not spill me, otherwise kill me. - Louis MacNeice

I am not yet born; O fill me with strength against those who would freeze my humanity. - Louis MacNeice

Better authentic mammon than a bogus god. - Louis MacNeice

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