Quotes of Louis MacNeice - somelinesforyou

“ September has come, it is hers Whose vitality leaps in the autumn, Whose nature prefers Trees without leaves and a fire in the fireplace. So I give her this month and the next Though the whole of my year should be hers who has rendered already So many of its days intolerable or perplexed But so many more so happy. Who has left a scent on my life, and left my walls Dancing over and over with her shadow Whose hair is twined in all my waterfalls And all of London littered with remembered kisses. ”

- Louis MacNeice

“ World is suddener than we fancy it. ”

- Louis MacNeice

“ I am not yet born; O fill me with strength against those who would freeze my humanity. ”

- Louis MacNeice

“ Some on commission, some for the love of learning, some because they have nothing better to do or because they hope these walls of books will deaden the drumming of the demon in their ears. ”

- Louis MacNeice

“ Some on commission, some for the love of learning, some because they have nothing better to do or because they hope these walls of books will deaden the drumming of the demon in their ears. ”

- Louis MacNeice

“ Some on commission, some for the love of learning, some because they have nothing better to do or because they hope these walls of books will deaden the drumming of the demon in their ears. ”

- Louis MacNeice

“ Let them not make me a stone and let them not spill me, otherwise kill me. ”

- Louis MacNeice

“ Some on commission, some for the love of learning, some because they have nothing better to do or because they hope these walls of books will deaden the drumming of the demon in their ears. ”

- Louis MacNeice

“ Let them not make me a stone and let them not spill me, otherwise kill me. ”

- Louis MacNeice

“ Some on commission, some for the love of learning, some because they have nothing better to do or because they hope these walls of books will deaden the drumming of the demon in their ears. ”

- Louis MacNeice

“ Our freedom as free lancesadvances toward its end;The earth compels, upon itSonnets and birds descend;And soon my friend We shall have no time for dances. ”

- Louis MacNeice

“ Our freedom as free lancesadvances toward its end;The earth compels, upon itSonnets and birds descend;And soon my friend We shall have no time for dances. ”

- Louis MacNeice

“ I am not yet born; O fill me with strength against those who would freeze my humanity. ”

- Louis MacNeice

“ Let them not make me a stone and let them not spill me, otherwise kill me. ”

- Louis MacNeice

“ Let them not make me a stone and let them not spill me, otherwise kill me. ”

- Louis MacNeice

“ Let them not make me a stone and let them not spill me, otherwise kill me. ”

- Louis MacNeice

“ Some on commission, some for the love of learning, some because they have nothing better to do or because they hope these walls of books will deaden the drumming of the demon in their ears. ”

- Louis MacNeice
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