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" It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it. "
W. H. Auden
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" I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street. "
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" What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish. "
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" Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another. "
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" A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do. "
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" God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich. "
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" When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes. "
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" A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep. "
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" The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age. "
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" The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living. "
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" The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own. "
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" In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag. "
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" Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do. "
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" Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate. "
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" In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they like, but he must never, never be unfaithful to them. "
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" The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind. "
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" The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition. "
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