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" To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why? "
W. H. Auden
See
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You
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" Art is born of humiliation. "
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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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" All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him. "
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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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" Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good. "
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" A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects. "
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" It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ. "
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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. "
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" In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag. "
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" Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table. "
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Always
Bed
" Hemingway is terribly limited. His technique is good for short stories, for people who meet once in a bar very late at night, but do not enter into relations. But not for the novel. "
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" Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell. "
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" For who can bear to feel himself forgotten? "
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Feel
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" If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me. "
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" A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. "
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Poet
" I don't get acting jobs because of my looks. "
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Get
" Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality. "
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Opinion
" May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that 'faith' is even more difficult for Him than it is for us? "
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God
Us
" One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell. "
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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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" 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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Eye
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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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Same
" If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away. "
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Time
Wicked
" 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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" A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us. "
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" We all have these places where shy humiliations gambol on sunny afternoons. "
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" 'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.' "
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" Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be. "
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" Now is the age of anxiety. "
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" Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say. "
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