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Literary Historian Inspirational Quotes (5894)

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There was still gold and silver in the mountains, And hunger was a more immediate sorrow
W. H. Auden
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Dogmatic theological statements are neither logical propositions nor poetic utterances. They are ''shaggy dog'' stories they have a point, but he who tries too hard to get it will miss it.
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A man has his distinctive personal scent which his wife, his children and his dog can recognize. A crowd has a generalized stink. The public is odorless.
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Accurate scholarship can unearth the whole offence from luther untill noe that has driven a culture mad. From what occured at linz what huge imago made a psychopathic god. i and the public know what all schoolchildren learn those to whom evil is done do evil in return.
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All good art is in the nature of a letter written to amuse a sick friend. Too much art, particularly in our time, is only a letter written to oneself.
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The poet marries the language, and out of this marriage the poem is born.
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To be free is often to be lonely.
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If the most significant characteristic of man is the complex of biological needs he shares with all members of his species, then the best lives for the writer to observe are those in which the role of natural necessity is clearest, namely, the lives of the very poor.
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What is a Professor of Poetry? How can poetry be professed?
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Though one cannot always Remember exactly why one has been happy, There is no forgetting that one was.
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Adjectives are the potbelly of poetry.
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Life is a picnic on a precipice.
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The only reason the Protestants and Catholics have given up the idea of universal domination is because they've realised they can't get away with it.
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We are lived by powers we pretend to understand.
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Detective stories have nothing to do with works of art.
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Nobody knows what the cause is, though some pretend they do it like some hidden assassin waiting to strike at you. Childless women get it, and men when they retire it as if there had to be some outlet for their foiled creative fire.
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Men will pay large sums to whores for telling them they are not bores.
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What we have not named as a symbol escapes our notice.
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If there are any souls in hell, it is because that is where they insist on being.
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Even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot Where the dogs go on with their doggy life
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What the poet says has never been said before, but, once he has said it, his readers recognize its validity for themselves.
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Those who hate to go to bed fear death those who hate to get up fear life.
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Dance, dance, dance till you drop.
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The camera may do justice to laughter, but must degrade sorrow.
W. H. Auden
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