28 ordspråk av Wystan Hugh Auden
Wystan Hugh Auden
A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.
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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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But in my arms till break of day
Let the living creature lie,
Mortal, guilty, but to me
The entirely beautiful.
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Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good
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Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say
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Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say
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Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say
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If there are any of you at the back who do not hear me, please don't raise your hands because I am also nearsighted.
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Looking up at the stars, I know quite well
That, for all they care, I can go to hell
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Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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Music, which can be made anywhere, Is invisible, And does not smell also
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My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth.
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Now is the age of anxiety.
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Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.
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