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Important Quotes by Wystan Hugh Auden
- The Americans are violently oral. That's why in America the mother is all-important and the father has no position at all -- isn't respected in…
- Man desires to be free and he desires to feel important. This places him in a dilemma, for the more he emancipates himself from necessity…
- The most important truths are likely to be those which society at that time least wants to hear.
- My poetry doesn't change from place to place - it changes with the years. It's very important to be one's age. You get ideas you…
- 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…
- In Brueghel’s Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away Quite leisurely from the disaster, the ploughman may Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry, But…
- Men make the mistake of thinking that because women can't see the sense in violence, they must be passive creatures. It's just not true. In…
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