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There seeps from heavily jowled or hawk-like foreign faces The guttural sorrow of the refugees.

There seeps from heavily jowled or hawk-like foreign faces The guttural sorrow of the refugees.

Louis MacNeice
Sorrow, Hawks, Faces
'The British Museum Reading Room' (1941)

a fortress against ideas and against the Shuddering insidious shock of the theory-vendors The little sardine men crammed in a monster toy Who tilt their aggregate beast against our crumbling Troy.

Louis MacNeice
Men, Ideas, Crumbling
Louis MacNeice (2015). “Collected Poems”, p.44, Faber & Faber

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

Louis MacNeice
Prayer, Humanity, Cogs
'Prayer Before Birth' (1944)

In my own prejudice.. I would have of a poet...whose worlds would not be too esoteric..fond of talking....capable of pity and laughter..appreciative of womem..involved in personal relationships...susceptible to physical impressions

Louis MacNeice
Laughter, Talking, Prejudice
"Modern Poetry: A Personal Essay". Book by Louis MacNeice, 1938.

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

Louis MacNeice
Stones, Killing, Kill Me
'Prayer Before Birth' (1944)

And I envy the intransigence of my own Countrymen who shoot to kill and never See the victim's face become their own Or find his motive sabotage their motives.

Louis MacNeice
Envy, Faces, Killing
Louis MacNeice (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.93, Faber & Faber

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