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Category: Louis MacNeice

  • What is it we want really? For what end and how?

    Louis MacNeice in Autumn Journal (1939) answers: If it is something feasible, obtainable,…..Let us dream it now,And pray for a possible land…..Not of sleepwalkers, not of angry puppets,But where both hand and brain can understand…..The movements of our fellows;Where life is…

  • "broken jars / That once held wine or perfume"

    And the word ‘love’ makes no sense, this history is almostRipe for the mind’s museum — broken jarsThat once held wine or perfume.Yet looking at their elegance on the standsI feel a certain pride that only lately(And yet so long ago) I…