"Cathedrals, luxury liners laden with souls, Holding to……" — Wystan Hugh Auden
"Cathedrals, luxury liners laden with souls, Holding to the east their hulls of stone."
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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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Sigmund Freud was the apostle of disbelief. He was the one who made psychoanalysis a part of our culture, and…
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The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.
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The mighty edifice of Government science dominated the scene in the middle of the 20th century as a Gothic cathedral…
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A true leader is one who designs the cathedral and then shares the vision that inspires others to build it.
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There is material enough in a single flower for the ornament of a score of cathedrals.
— John Ruskin
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Many men build as cathedrals are built-the part nearest the ground finished, but that part which soars toward heaven, the…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Of all man's works of art, a cathedral is greatest. A vast and majestic tree is greater than that.
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He who bears in his heart a cathedral to be built is already victorious. He who seeks to become sexton…
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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I was in the show for 21 days once-the 21 greatest days of my life. You know, you never handle…
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It seems that, after nineteen centuries of extraordinary glorification, the small Host for which so many cathedrals have sprung up,…
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To me, nature is sacred; trees are my temples and forests are my cathedrals.
— Mikhail Gorbachev
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