91 Quotes by Louis MacNeice

Let them not make me a stone and let them not spill me, otherwise kill me.

Broadcasting is plastic; while it can ape the press, it can also emulate the arts.

I am not yet born; O fill me With strength against those who would freeze my humanity, would dragoon me into a lethal automaton would make me a cog in a machine, a thing with one face, a thing

Some day I shall write a novel and call it 'A Walking Tour in the Congo' or 'Thrills and Spills in Aeronautics'; but I keep this type of title as a last & mercenary resort.

All experiment is made on a basis of tradition; all tradition is the crystallization of experiment.

All the people I know have been conditioned by snobbery.

Before I joined the BBC I was, like most of the intelligentsia, prejudiced not only against that institution but against broadcasting in general.

I am 33 years old, and what can I have been doing that I still am in a muddle? But everyone else is, too; maybe our muddles are concurrent.

I am at home in Dublin, more than in any other city.