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«A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.»
«A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb»
Author: W. H. Auden
(Dramatist, Editor, Poet)
| About:
Poetry
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«Men will pay large sums to whores for telling them they are not bores»
«A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gourmets, some gourmands, and a good many take their images precooked out of a can and swallow them down whole, absent-mindedly and with little relish.»
«All sin tends to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is what is called damnation»
Author: W. H. Auden
(Dramatist, Editor, Poet)
| Keywords:
addiction, addictions, addictive, damnation, Point of, tends, tends to, terminal, terminals, terminal point, The Terminal
«Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.»
«No hero is immortal till he dies»
«'In headaches and in worry Vaguely life leaks away,And Time will have his fancy To-morrow or to-day.»
«Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy»
«No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.»
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