Author Profile
Louis MacNeice
1907 – 1963 • British • Poet
45
Total Quotes
Collected Meditations
Showing 45 quotesMy stepmother appeared when I was about 9. My brother was sent off to an institute in Scotland & my sister & I were sent to school. As my stepmother's ideas were then wholly Quaker, mixed with a naive & charming innocence & a little snobbery, it was one dotty epoch on top of another. I always remained terrified of my father.— Louis MacNeice
The rules or 'laws' of poetry are only tentative devices, an approximate scheme. There is no Sinaitic recipe for poetry, for the individual poem is the norm.— Louis MacNeice