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Something Quotes by Wystan Hugh Auden
- A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down…
- To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself...
- To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself. Whenever a man so concentrates his attention - on a landscape, a…
- Drama is based on the Mistake. I think someone is my friend when he really is my enemy, that I am free to marry a…
- The definition of prayer is paying careful and concentrated attention to something other than your own constructions.
- The condition of mankind is, and always has been, so miserable and depraved that, if anyone were to say to the poet: "For God's sake…
- 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…
- There is a great deal of difference in believing something still, and believing it again.
- Whatever you do, good or bad, people will always have something negative to say
- I am sure it is everyone’s experience, as it has been mine, that any discovery we make about ourselves or the meaning of life is…
- The sky is darkening like a stain Something is going to fall like rain And it won't be flowers
- To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself. Whenever a manso concentrates his attentionon a landscape, a poem, a geometrical…
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