"Up the Rebels, To Hell with the Pope, And God Save--as you prefer--the King or Ireland. The land of scholars and saints: Scholars and saints my eye, the land of ambush, Purblind manifestoes, never-ending complaints"

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Source : Louis MacNeice (2015). “Collected Poems”, p.176, Faber & Faber

Louis MacNeice

#Eye Quotes #Rebel Quotes #Saint Quotes

“I wish I could just hug you all, but I'm not gonna.”
“People with tiny glasses and costly shoes can always find a couple of hours to explain how you did it all wrong.”
“Music has been a fantastic guidance for me. I'll be eternally thankful for this guidance.”
“In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans; in one aspect of You are found all the aspects of existence.”
“I found with poetry that I couldn't keep it up. I was too vulnerable. Maybe I was too aware of the audience. And I had impossibly high standards that I could never approach. So there was always a sense of being a failure, and of being vulnerable.”

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“Next to the human spirit the human body is the most marvelous of God's creations.”
“After returning from his stint in the minors made reference to the movie Slapshot with: I'm happy to be back. It was never my aspiration as a kid to play in the Federal league.”
“I had these glorified ideas about San Francisco and its drug culture - I thought inspiration would just hit me and I would get these San Francisco drugs in my system and all of a sudden an amazing record would come out. But that's not really what happened at all.”

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