"Prose exists to convey meaning, and no meaning such as prose conveys can be expressed as well in poetry. That's not poetry's purpose."

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Source : Basil Bunting (1994). “Three Essays”

Basil Bunting

#Purpose Quotes #Wells Quotes #Prose Quotes

“I got good advice once. Someone said to me: 'Live in your money rather than look at it.”
“If the stories come, you get them written, you're on the right track. Eventually everyone learns his or her own best way. The real mystery to crack is you.”
“I don't have much interest in being on a senior tour. I don't think I retired so that I could be on tour.”
“When I came up to Cambridge (in October 1921) to read economics, I did not have much idea of what it was about.”
“All worldly pursuits have but one unavoidable and inevitable end, which is sorrow; acquisitions end in dispersion; buildings in destruction; meetings in separation; births in death. Knowing this, one should, from the very first, renounce acquisitions and storing-up, and building, and meeting; and, faithful to the commands of an eminent Guru, set about realizing the Truth. That alone is the best of religious observances.”
“I'd rather be real and hated, than fake and loved.”
“You can't know if someone's really your best friend. I think the measure of that is you could not see each other for six months and then when you see each other you laugh the same way you did when you were a little kid.”
“The cost of stability is often diminished opportunities for growth.”

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