Special Dictionary / Quotations / W. H. Auden
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105 Quotations of W. H. Auden.
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A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gourmets, some go ...2.
A doctor, like anyone else who has to deal with human beings, each of them uniqu ...3.
A false enchantment can all too easily last a life ...4.
A man has his distinctive personal scent which his wife, his children and his do ...5.
A poet is a professional maker of verbal obj ...6.
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with l ...7.
A poet's hope: to be,
...8.
A professor is one who talks in someone else's s ...9.
A real book is not one that we read, but one that rea ...10.
A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores ...11.
A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, i ...12.
Accurate scholarship can
...13.
Acts of injustice done
...14.
All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is da ...15.
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by ...16.
Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutu ...17.
America has always been a country of amateurs where the professional, that is to ...18.
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among t ...19.
Anyone who has a child today should train him to be either a physicist or a ball ...20.
As a poet there is only one political duty, and that is to defend one's language ...| Next Page >> |
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