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1. "Always carry a corkscrew and the wine shall provide itself." ~ Basil Bunting
2. "To appreciate present conditions, collate them with those of antiquity." ~ Basil Bunting
3. "Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?" ~ Basil Bunting
4. "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." ~ Basil Bunting
5. "The mason stirs.Words!Pens are too light.Take a chisel to write." ~ Basil Bunting
6. "The times are squalid. They always were. It is a poet's duty to hold the line." ~ Basil Bunting
7. "...and always the cutting out and the buggering about and the buggering about and the rewriting and so on..." ~ Basil Bunting
8. "It tastes good, garlic and salt in it,with the half-sweet white wine of Orvietoon scanty grass under great treeswhere the ramparts cuddle Lucca.It sounds right, spoken on the ridgebetween marine olives and hillsideblue figs, under the breeze freshwith pollen of Apennine sage.It feels soft, weed thick in the caveand the smooth wet riddance of Antonietta'sbathing suit, mouth ajar forsubmarine Amalfitan kisses.It looks well on the page, but neverwell enough. Something is lostwhen wind, sun, sea upbraidjustly an unconvinced deserter." ~ Basil Bunting
9. "Poet appointed dare not declineto walk among the bogus..." ~ Basil Bunting
10. "Men are fools to invest in real estate." ~ Basil Bunting

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