"A poet can write about a man slaying……" — Wystan Hugh Auden
"A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb."
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Wystan Hugh Auden
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314 Quotes by Wystan Hugh Auden
Wystan Hugh Auden has 314 quotes on this site.
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I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and…
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We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.
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Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I…
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Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice…
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A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
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A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.
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Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.
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Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical…
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Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
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If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.
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All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.
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No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
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More Bomb Quotes
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A terrorist is someone who has a bomb, but doesn't have an air force.
— William Blum
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We want to be the band to dance to when the bomb drops.
— Simon Le Bon
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Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.
— Spiro T. Agnew
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There are many comedians who are afraid to work outside the coasts and the casinos because they're afraid they'll bomb.
— Elayne Boosler
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We are not afraid of nuclear weapons. The point is that if we had in fact wanted to build a…
— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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Jerusalem is a time bomb that I fear is just waiting to go off.
— Abdallah II
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For 50 years, nuclear power stations have produced three products which only a lunatic could want: bomb-explosive plutonium, lethal radioactive…
— James Buchan
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It had all the earmarks of a CIA operation; the bomb killed everybody in the room except the intended target!
— William F. Buckley, Jr.
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I mean you can learn how to build a bullet or build a gun or build a bomb on the…
— Barbara Bush
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One of the reasons surgeons have so much trouble separating Siamese twins is that nobody gets to do many of…
— Benjamin Carson
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I am so sick of reading about another car bomb, another suicide bomber, another 10, 20, 30, 70, 100 people…
— Rosanne Cash
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I had a reputation of being somewhat moderate, partly, I think, because I wasn't a 'bomb thrower' like some of…
— Dick Cheney
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