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True Quotes by Wystan Hugh Auden
- To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself. Whenever a man so concentrates his attention - on a landscape, 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…
- 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…
- Words have no word for words that are not true.
- A poet must never make a statement simply because it is sounds poetically exciting; he must also believe it to be true.
- 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…
- Let mortals beware of words For with words we lie Can speak peace When we mean war But song is true Let music for peace…
- 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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