"A poet's hope: to be, like some valley……" — Wystan Hugh Auden

"A poet's hope: to be, like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere."

— Wystan Hugh Auden

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314 Quotes by Wystan Hugh Auden

Wystan Hugh Auden has 314 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and…
We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I…
Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice…
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.
Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.
Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical…
Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.
All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.
No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.

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I eat cheese and salami and a lot of fried chicken. I eat a big bag of oatmeal-raisin cookies every… — Ellen Barkin
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Once we hit forty, women only have about four taste buds left: one for vodka, one for wine, one for… — Gina Barreca
I'm a carb queen. I'll always order macaroni and cheese, but I don't want it to be fancy. I want… — Drew Barrymore
I've had so many hot, cheesy, corny loves of music in my life. I had a very intense Billy Joel… — Jack Black
I don't have much patience for people who are self-conscious about the act of eating, and it irritates me when… — Anthony Bourdain
What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone? — Bertolt Brecht
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For less than the cost of a Big Mac, fries and a Coke, you can buy a loaf of fresh… — Steve Albini
Some of the best projects to ever come out of Atari or Chuck E. Cheese's were from high school dropouts,… — Nolan Bushnell
In 1980, Atari was bringing in around two billion dollars in revenue and Chuck E. Cheese's some five hundred million.… — Nolan Bushnell
In 1980, business at my company, Chuck E. Cheese's, was thriving and I was feeling flush. So I bought a… — Nolan Bushnell

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