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Always carry a corkscrew and the wine shall provide itself.

~Basil Bunting

Topics: Always Carry Itself Provide Shall Wine

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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

Topics: Anything Anything Else Confusing Confusion Destructive Else Exhilaration Explain Infectious Lifetime Moment Mystic Poetry Psychology Purchases Terms Try

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

~Basil Bunting

Topics: Age Consent Madness Make Make Up Moment Up

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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

Topics: About Common Jug Kind Listen Look Matters Music Others Own Picture Piece Poem Sculpture Whether You

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

~Basil Bunting

Topics: Antiquity Appreciate Conditions Present Them Those

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Poet

Born: March 3rd, 1900

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