"Lay your sleeping head, my love, Human on…" — Wystan Hugh Auden
"Lay your sleeping head, my love, Human on my faithless arm;"
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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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When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress…
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Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason…
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A ball had passed between my body and the right arm which supported him, cutting through the sleeve and passing…
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Looking up and out, how can we not respect this ever-vigilant cognizance that distinguishes us: the capability to envision, to…
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There's kind of a Zen aspect to bowling. The pins are either staying up or down before you even throw…
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You know sit with your arm around a little kid and read. It not only teaches them to read but…
— Barbara Bush
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Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away; A single laugh demolished the right arm Of his country.
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It is an old custom amongst Jewish children, to become war-like on the 'L'ag Beomer.' They arm themselves from head…
— Sholom Aleichem
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One of the things that's interesting to me is I find things like caffeine and stunts actually relax me. When…
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Quite frankly, having an uninformed populace works extremely well, particularly when you have a media that doesn't understand its responsibility…
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If you let a bully intimidate you, he's going to do it again. You've got to stand up to these…
— Unknown Author
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It is not only vain, but wicked, in a legislator to frame laws in opposition to the laws of nature,…
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