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Librettist Inspirational Quotes (7320)

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The closest modern equivalent to the Homeric hero is the ace fighter pilot.
W. H. Auden
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A verbal art like poetry is reflective it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.
W. H. Auden
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Aside from purely technical analysis, nothing can be said about music, except when it is bad when it is good, one can only listen and be grateful.
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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.
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To hunt for symbols in a fairy tale is absolutely fatal.
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Every poet has his dream reader: mine keeps a look out for curious prosodic fauna like bacchics and choriambs.
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Had Greek civilization never existed ... we would never have become fully conscious.
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To discover how to be human now is the reason we follow this star.
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History marched to the drums of a clear idea...
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A shilling life will give you all the facts.
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My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.
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The stars are dead. The animals will not look: We are left alone with our day, and the time is short, and History to the defeated May say Alas but cannot help nor pardon.
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Into this neutral air Where blind skyscrapers use Their full height to proclaim The strength of Collective Man, Each language pours its vain Competitive excuse.
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It's frightfully important for a writer to be his age, not to be younger or older than he is. One might ask, What should I write at the age of sixty-four, but never, What should I write in 1940.
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The poet who writes free verse is like Robinson Crusoe on his desert island: he must do all his cooking, laundry and darning for himself. In a few exceptional cases, this manly independence produces something original and impressive, but more often the result is squalor - dirty sheets on the unmade bed and empty bottles on the unswept floor.
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By mourning tongues The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
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God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich.
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It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.
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All wishes, whatever their apparent content, have the same and unvarying meaning: I refuse to be what I am.
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In life the loser's score is always zero.
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Acts of injustice done Between the setting and the rising sun In history lie like bones, each one.
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A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.
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A god who is both self-sufficient and content to remain so could not interest us enough to raise the question of his existence.
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Time will say nothing but I told you so.
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