Basil Bunting Quotes

The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion; and the confusion is infectious and destructive. It is confusing and destructive to try and explain anything in terms of anything else, poetry in terms of psychology.

Basil Bunting

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: March 3, 1900 - 1985

Topics

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I was a very shy child.

Jim Parsons

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I have people coming to me every day, coming to my office, with life-threatening diseases - life-threatening diseases - and they were dropped from their health care because of the Affordable Care Act.

Michael Grimm

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I know what people think I am. People think I'm dumb. People think I party all the time. People think I'm ignorant.

Michael Beasley

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It is also very engaging - and a delight - to go back to Bangladesh as often as I can, which is not only my old home, but also where some of my closest friends and collaborators live and work.

Amartya Sen

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It's never easy to write a song. It's the most difficult thing I do.

Sting

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The problem is when you are writing something in retrospective, it needs a lot of courage not to change, or you will forget a certain reality, and you will just take in consideration your view today.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali

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I took dance from a very early age, although my first recital, I remember refusing to go onstage. I think I was three. It's funny because that stage was also my high school theater stage.

Phillipa Soo

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I don't have a primary doctor, a primary hairstylist, a primary anything. I don't even have a primary address! Everything is just whenever I can find one.

SZA

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Creating a Financial Transactions Tax would go a long way to curbing short-term speculative trading, including high-frequency trading.

Sharan Burrow

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My background in promoting martial arts started in 1985 when we were doing PK Karate, which was on ESPN. Fast forward to when mixed martial arts became legal in California. I made the jump to MMA and never looked back.

Scott Coker

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The one thing I like about being a celebrity more than anything is being able to get into any restaurant I want.

Tyra Banks

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I was a huge fan of Bobby Cox, a huge fan of Chipper Jones and John Smoltz. And just those guys, I grew up watching those guys and often wondered early on in my career if I would ever have the chance to play for the Atlanta Braves, and there it was. God kind of answered my prayers.

Tim Hudson

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