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Quotes from Plant and Phantom — Louis MacNeice

1907–1963 Northern Ireland

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In my childhood trees were green
And there was plenty to be seen.

Plant and Phantom (1941)

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.

Plant and Phantom (1941)

Crumbling between the fingers, under the feet,
Crumbling behind the eyes,
Their world gives way and dies
And something twangs and breaks at the end of the street.

Plant and Phantom (1941)

The dark was talking to the dead;
The lamp was dark beside my bed.

Plant and Phantom (1941)

Time was away and somewhere else,
There were two glasses and two chairs
And two people with the one pulse
(Somebody stopped the moving stairs):
Time was away and somewhere else.

Plant and Phantom (1941)

And under the totem poles—the ancient terror—
Between the enormous fluted Ionic columns
There seeps from heavily jowled or hawk-like foreign faces
The guttural sorrow of the refugees.

Plant and Phantom (1941)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Louis MacNeice (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.