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Wystan Hugh Auden has 321 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon…
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We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.
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Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all…
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Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action…
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A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
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A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.
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Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.
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Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to…
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Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
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If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.
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All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.
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No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
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When all the archetypes burst out shamelessly, we plumb the depths of Homeric profundity. Two clichés make us laugh but a hundred…
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So it was that the war in the air began. Men rode upon the whirlwind that night and slew and fell like…
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The closest modern equivalent to the Homeric hero is the ace fighter pilot.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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The Conspiracy Theory of Society... [is] a typical result of the secularization of a religious superstition. The belief in the Homeric gods…
— Karl Popper
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What is the foundation of that interest all men feel in Greek history, letters, art, and poetry, in all its periods, from…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There is exactly the same degree of possibility and likelihood of the existence of the Christian God as there is of the…
— Bertrand Russell
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What the translator - myself in particular - does is not comparable to what the Homeric performer was doing.
— Robert Fitzgerald
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O, to bring back the great Homeric time, The simple manners and the deed sublime: When the wise Wanderer, often foiled by…
— Mortimer Collins
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As a philosopher, if I were speaking to a purely philosophic audience I should say that I ought to describe myself as…
— Bertrand Russell
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