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“I am not yet born; O fill me With strength against those who would freeze my humanity, would dragoon me into a lethal automaton would make me a cog in a machine, a thing with one face, a thing”

Quote by Louis MacNeice

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Louis MacNeice was a prominent British poet of the 20th century, born on September 12, 1907, and died on September 3, 1963. He is known for his unique poetic style and profound insights into modern life. more

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“I was the rector's son, born to the anglican order, Banned for ever from the candles of the Irish poor; The Chichesters knelt in marble at the end of a transept With ruffs about their necks, their portion sure.”

Ends Order Born Poor Son Necks Candle Portions Ireland Marble Banned

Book:Collected Poems

Source: Collected Poems

“World is crazier and more of it than we think, Incorrigibly plural.”

Author:Louis MacNeice

“The sunlight on the garden Hardens and grows cold, We cannot cage the minute Within its nets of gold”

Time Grows Minutes Cold Garden Gold Sunlight Cages Old Time

Author:Louis MacNeice

“a fortress against ideas and against the Shuddering insidious shock of the theory-vendors The little sardine men crammed in a monster toy Who tilt their aggregate beast against our crumbling Troy.”

Men Littles Ideas Theory Monsters Beast Shock Toys Aggression Insidious Fortresses Crumbling Tilt Vendors Shuddering Sardines

Book:Collected Poems

Source: Collected Poems

“There seeps from heavily jowled or hawk-like foreign faces The guttural sorrow of the refugees.”

Faces Sorrow Refugee Hawks

Author:Louis MacNeice

“You know the worst: your wills are fickle, Your values blurred, your hearts impure And your past life a ruined church-- But let your poison be your cure.”

Knows Heart Past Values Church Worst Suicide Cures Poison Our Past Ruined Your Past Past Life Fickle

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“It's no go the picture palace, it's no go the stadium, It's no go the country cot with a pot of pink geraniums. It's no go the Government grants, it's no go the elections, Sit on your arse for fifty years and hang your hat on a pension.”

Years Country Government Election Fifty Hats Daily Life Grants Pot Apathy Laziness Palaces Stadiums Pension Arses

Author:Louis MacNeice

“Why do we like being Irish? Partly because It gives us a hold on the sentimental English As members of a world that never was, Baptized with fairy water”

World Giving Water Members Fairy Ireland Sentimental Baptized Being Irish

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“It's no go the merry-go-round, it's no go the rickshaw All we want is a limousine and a ticket for the peepshow.”

Want Rounds Greed Tickets Merry Limousines Merry Go Round Rickshaw

Author:Louis MacNeice

“blind wantons like the gulls who scream And rip the edge off any ideal or dream.”

Dream Ideals Blind Edges Scream Cynicism Rip Wanton Gulls

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems