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Cannot Quotes by Wystan Hugh Auden
- If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.
- One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell.
- Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.
- Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good.
- The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.
- It is axiomatic that we should all think of ourselves as being more sensitive than other people because, when we are insensitive in our dealings…
- A doctor, like anyone else who has to deal with human beings, each of them unique, cannot be a scientist; he is either, like the…
- The belief that politics can be scientific must inevitably produce tyrannies. Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated,…
- Money cannot buy the fuel of love but is excellent kindling.
- The Ogre does what ogres can, Deeds quite impossible for Man, But one prize is beyond his reach: The Ogre cannot master speech. About a…
- The windiest militant trash Important Persons shout Is not so crude as our wish: What mad Nijinsky wrote About Diaghilev Is true of the normal…
- One cannot review a bad book without showing off.
- How should we like it were stars to burn With a passion for us we could not return? If equal affection cannot be, Let the…
- Christmas and Easter can be subjects for poetry, but Good Friday, like Auschwitz, cannot. The reality is so horrible it is not surprising that people…
- The true men of action in our time those who transform the world are not the politicians and statesmen but the scientists. Unfortunately poetry cannot…
- Attacking bad books is not only a waste of time but also bad for the character. If I find a book really bad, the only…
- Laziness acknowledges the relation of the present to the past but ignores its relation to the future; impatience acknowledge its relation to the future but…
- Happy the hare at morning, for she cannot read The hunter's waking thoughts.
- As readers, we remain in the nursery stage so long as we cannot distinguish between taste and judgment, so long, that is, as the only…
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- If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good. — Wystan Hugh Auden