Louis MacNeice Quotes

For this reason poets and artists developed the doctrine of Art for Art's Sake. The community did not appear to need them, so, tit for tat, they did not need the community. This being granted, it was no longer necessary or even desirable to make one's poetry either intelligible or sympathetic to the community.

Louis MacNeice

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

CommunityArtPoetryNeedReason

Oh, I was never a businessman. I was a visionary, a dreamer.

Jim Bakker

DreamsDreamerVisionaryNeverOh

I don't like the monikers, and I don't like being pigeonholed. You know, I'm a human being.

John Lydon

YouKnowHumanHuman BeingBeing

I'm just wanting to make the proper breakfast and keep the house. That's my passion. At the request of my kids, I'm taking cooking classes. As I go to sleep at night, I think, 'Did I do a great job as a mom, or was that an average day?'

Angelina Jolie

PassionGreatDayCookingJobSleep

The 'Total Information Awareness' project is truly diabolical - mostly because of the legal changes which have made it possible in the first place. As a consequence of the Patriot Act, government now has access to all sorts of private and commercial databases that were previously off limits.

John Perry Barlow

GovernmentLimitsLegalInformation

Everything I have, I owe to baseball and the Dodgers.

Tommy Lasorda

BaseballEverythingOweDodgers

I love to play it. I think it's funny. It's always been funny to me. Somebody who's large and in charge but totally wrong-headed.

Rob Riggle

FunnyLoveMeThinkPlayAlways

I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man's estate.

Michel de Montaigne

LifeHumbleManPhilosophyYouTie

I can't drive, so I can only live in New York, which is fine with me.

Michael Musto

LiveNew YorkMeDriveI CanNew

Art, it seems to me, doesn't need freedom so much as it needs courage and love - some would call it 'soul' or 'Eros.'

Michael Leunig

LoveFreedomCourageArtSoulMe

I've always felt like I've had the ability to choose which roles I was going to play. I don't think that the industry agreed with me, but I've always had a bit of a headstrong attitude of only doing the things that I really believe in and want to explore.

Brie Larson

AttitudeMeBelieveThinkChoose

Turning feelings into words can help us process and overcome adversity.

Sheryl Sandberg

AdversityWordsProcessHelpUs

When I sat down to write I just felt like a geek writing about myself. And then it dawned on me, just because of the way I am, I can't stop talking, and part of the problem is that anything that gets said reminds me of something that happened to me one time, and invariably I cut people off and talk about myself.

Paula Poundstone

TimeMyselfI AmPeopleMeWriting

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