Funny Quote by W. H. Auden Download Open image “Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable.” — W. H. Auden ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Funny Inspirational Love Names Names Poetry Nicknames Poetry Poetry Raw Poetry Untranslatable Proper Names Untranslatable
Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought. — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
By virtue of this science the poet is the Namer, or Language-maker, naming things sometimes after their appearance, sometimes after their essence, and giving… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“names which are relatively easy to pronounce correctly by someone whose first and only language is English have been included. Unless you speak a… — K.M. Sheard Copy Share Image
What you think of a name depends so much on the people you know by that name. — Doug McClure Copy Share Image
“It would be a mistake to name them for qualities we think they have,” Samuel said. “We might be wrong—so wrong. Maybe it would… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Notes on Names, Transliterations and Titles This book inevitably contains a challenging diversity of names, languages and questions of transliteration. It is for general… — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
I do not give the honorific name of 'poetry' to the primitive and the unaccomplished. — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
A lot of names in America and Europe have their roots in Latin and Greek words. A lot of them go back to archetypes… — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share Image
Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Why doesn't the United States take over the monarchy and unite with England? England does have important assets. Naturally the longer you wait, the… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
The commonest ivory tower is that of the average man, the state of passivity towards experience. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Harrow the house of the dead; look shining at New styles of architecture, a change of heart. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Most poetry is the utterance of a man in some state of passion, love, joy, grief, rage, etc., and no doubt this is as… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Men will pay large sums to whores for telling them they are not bores. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
If age, which is certainly Just as wicked as youth, look any wiser, It is only that youth is still able to believe It… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
I and the public know What all schoolchildren learn, Those to whom evil is done Do evil in return. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
How happy the lot of the mathematician. He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that no colleague or… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
When you step out and do a song in a musical, the easier thing to do is make it funny. But when those transitions… — Kelli O'Hara Copy Share Image
It's a hard thing to describe. It's just this sense that you got something to say. — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
Sometimes I look at my awesome twitter followers & think to myself, What the hell would I do without them :) — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
Congratulations to Facebook on going public with all my private information... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you were to send a werewolf to the moon, would he be a werewolf permanently? — Kristen Schaal Copy Share Image
