Basil Bunting Quotes

• Gin the goodwife stint and the bairns hunger the Duke can get his rent one year longer.
• The Duke can get his rent and we can get our ticket twa pund emigrant on a C.P.R. packet.
• Poetry? It's a hobby. I run model trains. Mr Shaw there breeds pigeons. It's not work. You dont sweat. Nobody pays for it. You could advertise soap.
• Who says it's poetry, anyhow? My ten year old can do it and rhyme. Mr Hines says so, and he's a schoolteacher, he ought to know. Go and find work.

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