Basil Bunting Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by Basil Bunting:

Always carry a corkscrew and the wine shall provide itself.
~Basil Bunting


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/basil-bunting-quotes/#7c57db4a

To appreciate present conditions, collate them with those of antiquity.
~Basil Bunting


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/basil-bunting-quotes/#09107bc2

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/basil-bunting-quotes/#dcf4d5b6

Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?
~Basil Bunting


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/basil-bunting-quotes/#23ed8cfc

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.
~Basil Bunting


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/basil-bunting-quotes/#73963e4d

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