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
(Related: Poetry, Confusion, Psychology)

"To appreciate present conditions, collate them with those of antiquity."
- Basil Bunting
(Related: Present)

"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
(Related: Music, Sculpture)

"Always carry a corkscrew and the wine shall provide itself."
- Basil Bunting
(Related: Wine)