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«All that we are not stares back at what we are»
Author: W. H. Auden (Dramatist, Editor, Poet) | Keywords: stares
«''Healing,'' Papa would tell me, ''is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.''»
«Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.»
«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»
«Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.»
Author: W. H. Auden (Dramatist, Editor, Poet) | Keywords: Thousands
«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.»
«. . . see without looking, . . . hear without listening, . . . breathe without asking.»
Author: W. H. Auden (Dramatist, Editor, Poet) | Keywords: asking, breathe
«Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.»
«Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say»
«The nightingales are sobbing in / The orchards of our mothers, / And hearts that we broke long ago / Have long been breaking others.»

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