“The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.”
W. H. Auden
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Death
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“Criticism should be a casual conversation.”
W. H. Auden
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Criticism
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“Healing, Papa would tell me, is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.”
W. H. Auden
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“A professor is one who talks in someone else’s sleep.”
W. H. Auden
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Teacher
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“A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.”
W. H. Auden
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Reading
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“Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.”
W. H. Auden
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Reading
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“All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.”
W. H. Auden
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Sin
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“You have to see the sex act comically, as a child.”
W. H. Auden
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Sex
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“We are here on earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I don’t know.”
W. H. Auden
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Service
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“You must go to bed with friends or whores, where money makes up the difference in beauty or desire.”
W. H. Auden
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Relationship
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“Poetry makes nothing happen. It survives in the valley of its saying.”
W. H. Auden
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Poetry
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“No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.”
W. H. Auden
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable.”
W. H. Auden
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.”
W. H. Auden
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Music
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“The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.”
W. H. Auden
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Mind
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“We must love one another or die.”
W. H. Auden
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Love
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“A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.”
W. H. Auden
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Love
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“One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell.”
W. H. Auden
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Religion
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“God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich.”
W. H. Auden
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Political
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“No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.”
W. H. Auden
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
