Louis MacNeice Quotes

A poet should always be 'collaborating' with his public, but this public, in the mass, cannot make itself heard, and he has to guess at its requirements and its criticisms.

Louis MacNeice

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: September 12, 1907 - September 3, 1963

Topics

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The risk of just one terrorist with just one nuclear weapon is a risk we simply cannot afford to take.

John O. Brennan

RiskTakeCannotJust OneJust

Indy is my home. It's part of me; it's in my DNA.

Robert Mathis

HomeMeDNAIndyPart

I always like to keep one hand in the tepee and the other hand in the synagogue. Wouldn't it be great if there was a combination of the two? You could go to synagogue, and it would be really hot in there.

Robbie Robertson

GreatYouGoHandHotAlways

All too often, white documentary filmmakers are the ones telling the stories of people of color.

Roger Ross Williams

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As Americans, it is always important to remember where we once were and how far we have come.

Mike Quigley

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I never lost a fight because I wasn't in shape or because I wasn't ready. I lost because I was either beaten by a man better than me, or it wasn't my night.

Micky Ward

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I myself think anti-Semitism is about envy.

Joseph Epstein

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I keep trying to perfect my mother's meatloaf recipe. I will never get it perfect, but I'm getting closer.

Diane Sawyer

MotherTryingPerfectWillNever

Try to understand that behind every headline, there are individuals, families, and communities.

Clare-Hope Ashitey

UnderstandTryBehindHeadlineEvery

No adviser to a president is going to get his way all of the time, but at a minimum, that adviser should be able to defend the tilt of an administration's policy as if it were his own. If not, he should make room for those who can.

Bret Stephens

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I'm taking all the negatives in my life, and turning them into a positive.

Pitbull

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Once I got in the public eye there was no going back.

Shayne Ward

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