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Louis MacNeice Quotes

Good poets have written in order to describe something or to preach something - with their eye on the object or the end. The essence of the poetry does not lie in the thing described or in the message imparted but in the resulting concrete unity, the poem.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Good Lie Poetry Unity Eye End

Because I've done so many hour dramas, people tend to think of you as more of a dramatic actor and don't see you as doing comedy.

People Think Comedy Doing You Done

I have never been political in a partisan sense.

Political Never Sense Been Partisan

In addition to offering benefits to those who invest, carry out research, and create jobs, higher taxes on land and real-estate speculation would redirect capital toward productivity-enhancing spending - the key to long-term improvement in living standards.

Joseph Stiglitz

Improvement Research Key Create Land

Fortunately, this is not something that we see a lot of. Very rarely do you see a dog in this terrible shape from starvation. People just aren't that cruel.

Dog People You See Shape Something

I cannot wait to see the day that one day we will have a chef that will become the secretary of food of the United States of America.

Food Day Chef Wait America Become

I do a lot of corporate consulting work. I've been doing it a long time.

Work Time Doing Long Long Time Been

You shape your own destiny.

Destiny You Own Shape Your

Anything written or printed under a print or picture takes the attention from it and, if it is very black or white in any marked degree, will utterly destroy its beauty.

Beauty Black Picture Attention White

Singing is a form of admitting that I'm alive.

Singing Alive Admitting Form

It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

Hope Politics Happy People Vain

I think I can be an intimidating energy in the room. I think I come in with an aura of wanting results because as the playwright, I know how it goes, and there's the thought, 'Why can't they catch up?'

Richard Greenberg

Energy Think Thought Results I Can

If you can't read, the only thing you can do is enjoy the pictures, not the whole story. Reading is the key to knowledge. Knowledge is the key to understanding. So read on, young man! Read on, young lady!

Knowledge Man Reading Story Key You

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