Quotes by Austin Clarke - Page 1

Reform and exchange in English poetry are as slow as in the British constitution itself.
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Exchange
Slow
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Passion in Ireland is denounced as evil and obscene. Women are the snares set for us by the Devil.
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Ireland
Obscene
Women Are
Snare
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Assonance is not the enemy of rhyme. It helps us to respect rhyme, which has been spoiled by mechanical use.
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Enemy
Rhyme
Spoiled
Helps
Mechanical
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Irish poetry has lost the ready ear and the comforts of recognition. But we must go on. We must be true to our own minds.
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Recognition
Be True
Comforts
Ear
Irish
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Few realise that English poetry is rather like the British constitution, surrounded by pompous precedents and reverences.
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Pompous
Realise
Surrounded
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It takes us many years to learn that the passion for justice and the welfare of all, once it has been aroused, is the deepest one in moral life.
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Moral
Passion
Welfare
Years
Aroused
Learn
Takes
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Moral training in Ireland is severe and lasts until marriage. Even in childhood, we are taught by the pious clergy to battle against bad thoughts so that we may preserve our holy purity.
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Battle
Clergy
Holy
Ireland
Lasts
Pious
Purity
Severe
Preserve
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In contrast to our sinking taste, there has been a revival of interest in verse drama in England, Scotland, and elsewhere. The movement has been slow but sure and, above all, modest in its demands.
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Contrast
Elsewhere
Modest
Revival
Scotland
Sinking
Taste
Demands
Slow
Verse
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In expressing so completely his own type, Mr. Yeats presents us with the case for integrity. If we can express eventually our own scholastic mentality in verse, I believe that our art will lead us not towards, but away from, English art.
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Mentality
Type
Yeats
Art Believe I Believe
Mr
Case
Express
Towards
Presents
Scholastic
Verse
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Few in the Nineties would have ventured to prophesy that the remote dim singer of the Celtic Twilight would, in a new age, become the leading poet of the English-speaking world. None have disputed the claim of William Butler Yeats to that title.
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Celtic
English Speaking
New Age
Twilight
Yeats
Butler
Claim
Dim
Disputed
William
Nineties
Prophesy
Remote
Title
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In these days of our new materialistic Irish state, poetry will have a harder, less picturesque task. But the loss of Yeats and all that boundless activity, in a country where the mind is feared and avoided, leaves a silence which it is painful to contemplate.
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Activity
Avoided
Boundless
Country
Harder
Loss
Materialistic
Painful
Picturesque
Silence
Yeats
Less
Days
State
Contemplate
Feared
Irish
Leaves
Task
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When I first discovered for myself the Celtic Twilight and read the earlier poems of Yeats and others, all was entirely incomprehensible to me. I groped through a mist of blurred meanings, stumbled through lines in which every accent seemed to be in the wrong place.
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Celtic
Lines
Mist
Twilight
Yeats
Accent
Blurred
Discovered
Earlier
Entirely
Incomprehensible
Meanings
Seemed
Stumbled
Wrong Place
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Yeats regarded his work as the close of an epoch, and the least of his later lyrics brings the sense of a great occasion. English critics have tried to claim him for their tradition, but, heard closely, his later music has that tremulous lyrical undertone which can be found in the Anglo-Irish eloquence of the eighteenth century.
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Century
Critics
Eloquence
Epoch
Found
Heard
Lyrical
Tradition
Yeats
Work Great Music
English
Brings
Claim
Work Music Great
Close
Eighteenth
Eighteenth Century
Later
Least
Occasion
Regarded
Tried
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