"Let mortals beware of words For with words……" — Wystan Hugh Auden
"Let mortals beware of words For with words we lie Can speak peace When we mean war But song is true Let music for peace Be the paradigm For peace means change At the right time"
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Wystan Hugh Auden
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314 Quotes by Wystan Hugh Auden
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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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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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No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
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