W. H. Auden Quotes
There has been a vast output of critical studies in contemporary poetry, some of them first rate, but I do not think that , as a rule, a poet should read them.
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I never eat where the hotel recommends. I do my own research and then try the most highly rated options.
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If you go to India the roads are being built almost entirely with private sector money and by the private sector. If you look at many, many countries in Europe that's how they're doing it.
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It isn't hard to find injustice around us, but we must not let injustice smear the good deeds that do occur everyday.
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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
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Because I travel so much, I bring my workout clothes and shoes wherever I go. That way I can always do some exercise.
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Life is too short to blend in.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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If there's a trait for not sleeping, I probably have it.
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I feel like obviously the standard for what TV looks like changes all the time.
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The physicians of one class feel the patients and go away, merely prescribing medicine. As they leave the room they simply ask the patient to take the medicine. They are the poorest class of physicians.
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Music is my heart, but I see television and more movies in the next stage of my life.
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I am happy in Paris.
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Women who have abortions are people you know. Because that is the truth! One in three American women will have an abortion by menopause.
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I hear my songs being sung by females before I change them and make them into my voice.
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When you're young, you're always concerned about how you're being seen and how you're being criticized.
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Sometimes his methods are questionable, and even his morals are questionable, but his intention is always to protect Sydney. So in that way I think he's a good parent.
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I don't understand why you have to wear a wedding ring to warn people off. You should be able to be faithful to that person without anything on your body to show that you are with someone.
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Gifts fall from heaven only in fairy tales.
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If you're in a popular TV show, you can attract attention, and I like to help focus that on stories that deserve to be told - which is what politicians do. But I would lose my autonomy, and to get things done I would have to compromise and get into the weeds of policy. I don't know if I'm smart enough.
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I think all people are familiar with thinking about their death and trying to come to terms with the fact that we will, at some point, no longer exist. The loss of one's ego is very tough to reconcile with; you really have to do a lot of mental gymnastics to wrap your head around the idea of just not existing anymore.
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Pride thinks it's own happiness shines the brighter by comparing it with the misfortunes of others.
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I am not asking anyone to accept Christianity if his best reasoning tells him that the weight of the evidence is against it.
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There has been a vast output of critical studies in contemporary poetry, some of them first rate, but I do not think that , as a rule, a poet should read them.
