Dead Quote by W. H. Auden Download Open image “The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.” — W. H. Auden ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Dead Dead man Death Guts Guts Living Language Life Man Modified Modified Guts Words Dead
“What the dead had no speech for, when living, They can tell you, being dead: the communication Of the dead is tongued with fire… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“It's the living that turn and chase the dead. The long bones and skulls are tumbled from their shrouds, and words like stones thrust… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
...a man does not die for words. He dies for his relation to them. — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
“The dead are like puppets: even when their own words are brought forth, they are ventriloquized by the living.” — Nicole Rudick Copy Share Image
Indeed our words will remain lifeless, barren, devoid of any passion, until we die as a result of these words, whereupon our words will… — Sayyid Qutb Copy Share Image
“Who can call a man dead whose words still hush and whose sentiments move?” — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
The written word may be man's greatest invention. It allows us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“Our dead become the photographs and words we hang on the walls, but they also hang on the walls of our hearts, the windows… — Zeina Kassem 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
I'm going to stay on stage until I drop dead. Then I'm going to have myself stuffed, like Trigger, and I'm going to put… — Debbie Reynolds Copy Share Image
Okay, so I'll admit I'm curious. Big deal. We both know what that leads to. Dead cat. — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
It's a really dark, emotionally wrenching world that we've created on 'The Walking Dead.' — Laurie Holden Copy Share Image
If you’re alive, don’t move, if you’re dead, don’t worry about it. — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
“I’m just–” She wanted to say “not in the mood,” but that was not only a cliché but a vast understatement. She was dead.” — Will McIntosh Copy Share Image
He was obviously dead. But since he was a vampire that wasn't as hopless a thing as it might have been. — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
Ireland starts for me with the end of 'The Dead,' which my father read to me from his desk in his basement office in… — John Jeremiah Sullivan Copy Share Image
