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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.
Category: Body Author: W H Auden
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A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep.
Category: College Author: W H Auden
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Dance till the stars come down from the rafters
Dance, Dance, Dance till you drop.
Category: Dancing Author: W H Auden
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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.
Category: Daydreaming Author: W H Auden
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Man is a history-making creature who can neither repeat his past nor leave it behind.
Category: History Author: W H Auden
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Political history is far too criminal and pathological to be a fit subject of study for the young. Children should acquire their heroes and villains from fiction.
Category: History Author: W H Auden
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And none will hear the postman's knock
Without a quickening of the heart.
For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?
Category: Letters Author: W H Auden
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No good opera plot can be sensible:... people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
Category: Music Author: W H Auden
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It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
Category: Poetry Author: W H Auden
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What is a Professor of Poetry? How can poetry be professed?
Category: Poetry Author: W H Auden
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