Quotes by Basil Bunting
To appreciate present conditions, collate them with those of antiquity.
Always carry a corkscrew and the wine shall provide itself.
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.
Sooner or later we must absorb Islam if our own culture is not to die of anemia.
I hate science. It denies a man's responsibility for his own deeds, abolishes the brotherhood that springs from God's fatherhood. It is a hectoring, dictating expertise, which makes the least lovable of the Church Fathers seem liberal by contrast. It is far easier for a Hitler or a Stalin to find a mock-scientific excuse for persecution than it was for Dominic to find a mock-Christian one.
Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?
