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Stills Quotes by Wystan Hugh Auden
- The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are…
- If age, which is certainly Just as wicked as youth, look any wiser, It is only that youth is still able to believe It will…
- In a land which is fully settled, most men must accept their local environment or try to change it by political means; only the exceptionally…
- Be subtle, various, ornamental, clever, And do not listen to those critics ever Whose crude provincial gullets crave in books Plain cooking made still plainer…
- Follow, poet, follow right To the bottom of the night, With your unconstraining voice Still persuade us to rejoice; With the farming of a verse…
- There is a great deal of difference in believing something still, and believing it again.
- Over the tea-cups and in the square the tongue has its desire; Still waters run deep, my dear, there's never smoke without fire.
- Warm are the still and lucky miles, White shores of longing stretch away, A light of recognition fills The whole great day, and bright The…
- I will love you forever" swears the poet. I find this easy to swear too. "I will love you at 4:15 pm next Tuesday" -…
- In the eyes of others a man is a poet if he has written one good poem. In his own he is only a poet…
- Oh, how I wish that Orwell were still alive, so that I could read his comments on contemporary events!
More Stills Quotes
- The structure of apartheid is still rooted in the Haitian society. When you have apartheid, you don't see those behind the walls.… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth. — Aristotle
- I really enjoy being single again. I spent a lot of time in a relationship and the nearer we came to the… — Dido Armstrong
- When I was a little kid - and even still - I loved magic tricks. When I saw how movies got made… — J. J. Abrams
- I still don't get golf. — Lance Armstrong
- Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore. — Matthew Arnold
- People still question my sobriety, my commitment to the program, and that hurts. I take things day by day, and sometimes I… — Tom Arnold
- Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try. — Mary Kay Ash
- I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored. — David Attenborough
- We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly. — Margaret Atwood
- The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen… — Wystan Hugh Auden