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Quotes from Poems 1925–1940 — Louis MacNeice

1907–1963 Northern Ireland

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Under the coffered gilt the court historian
Turns the mothy silks that time has left him.

Poems 1925–1940 (1940)

So they were married—to be the more together—
And found they were never again so much together,
Divided by the morning tea,
By the evening paper,
By children and tradesmen’s bills.

Poems 1925–1940 (1940)

I have no liking to defer
To capitalist or bureaucrat;
As for your Social Register
You know what you can do with that!

Poems 1925–1940 (1940)

Attribution

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