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«No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.»
«As a poet there is only one political duty, and that is to defend one's language against corruption. When it is corrupted, people lose faith in what they hear and this leads to violence.»
«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.»
«The word 'Intellectual' suggests straight away - A man who's untrue to his wife»
«Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.»
Author: W. H. Auden
(Dramatist, Editor, Poet)
| Keywords:
difference of opinion, Direct proportion, irritating, triviality
«To save your world you asked this man to die;Would this man, could he see you now, ask why?»
«The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar, and is shocked by the unexpected: the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition»
Author: W. H. Auden
(Dramatist, Editor, Poet)
| Keywords:
craves, impatient, on the other hand, repetition, shocked, tends, tends to, The Ear, the novel, unexpected
«Let us honor if we can the vertical man, though we value none but the horizontal one»
«Now Ireland has her madness and her weather still, For poetry makes nothing happen»
«To ask the hard question is simple»
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