Modern English polite society...
seems to me as corrupt as consciousness of culture and absence of honesty can make it. A canting, lie-loving, fact-hating, scribbling, chattering, wealth-hunting, pleasure-hunting, celebrity-hunting mob
George Bernard Shaw
An Unsocial Socialist (1883)
The want of poetical power is the impelling force in the case of most versifiers. They would fain be poets, and imagine that the best way is to try to write poetry and to publish what they write. They will never see their mistake. Equus asinus still believes that the possession of an organ of noise is sufficient, with a little practice, to enable him to sing like a nightingale.
John Davidson (1857 – 1909)
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It is necessary for the socialist poet to have
more impressive technical equipment than his
apolitical contemporaries because his task is that much more important. Alan Bold
Recusant
AXIS OF SHAME
MAY ARGUES THAT WE MUST RESPECT THE RESULT OF A REFERENDUM HELD OVER TWO YEARS AGO BASED ON LIES...
THIS RACIST,
ISLAMOPHOBIC, HOMOPHOBIC, NARCISSISTIC
CHANCER
IS NOT
OUR
PRIME
MINISTER!
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...AND YET SHE IS BRINGING HER SHAMBOLIC 'DEAL' BACK TO PARLIAMENT EVEN THOUGH IT WAS REJECTED BY THE LARGEST DEFEAT IN BRITISH POLITICAL HISTORY...
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it is wrong ... to imagine that the currently fashionable and approved constitutes the work of permanent importance Alan Bold (1970)
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