His father gave him a box of truisms Shaped like a coffin, then his father died; The truisms remained on the mantelpiece.
Louis MacNeice Quotes
Something of glass about her, of dead water, Chills and holds us, Far more fatal than painted flesh or the lodestone of live hair This despair of crystal brilliance.
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| Birth: | 12th September, 1907 |
| Death: | 3rd September, 1963 |
| Nationality: | Irish |
| Profession: | Playwriter, Poet |
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