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Basil Bunting [1900-1985] British
Rank: 106
Poet


Basil Cheesman Bunting was a significant British modernist poet whose reputation was established with the publication of Briggflatts in 1966.

Poetry

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Always carry a corkscrew and the wine shall provide itself.
101
Whether you listen to a piece of music, or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug, or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own.
102
To appreciate present conditions, collate them with those of antiquity.
103
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. Poetry
104
Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?
105

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