"Criticism should be a casual conversation." — Wystan Hugh Auden

"Criticism should be a casual conversation."

— 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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This quote is filed under Casual Quotes, one of 299 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as… — Margaret Atwood
I'm into a casual-dressing girl: blue jeans and a tank top is super sexy. But the sexiest thing on a… — Jensen Ackles
Jeremy Clarkson is rather charming, but I can't stomach his public persona. I don't like his casual racism and casual… — Jo Brand
Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective. — William S. Burroughs
In the early days of the video game business, everybody played. The question is, what happened? My theory - and… — Nolan Bushnell
When it kind of went to 'Street Fighter', where you had to push 13 buttons with all 13 of your… — Nolan Bushnell
I'm a sweats and UGGs girl. Very casual. — Jennifer Aniston
Appreciation of works of art requires organized effort and systematic study. Art appreciation can no more be absorbed by aimless… — Albert Barnes
Goresthorpe Grange is a feudal mansion - or so it was termed in the advertisement which originally brought it under… — Arthur Conan Doyle
According to this view of the matter, there is nothing casual in the formation of Metamorphic Rocks. All strata, once… — John Herschel
Casual drug users should be taken out and shot. — Daryl Gates
Daily fervent prayers seeking forgiveness and special help and direction are essential to our lives and the nourishment of our… — Donald L. Staheli

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