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W.H. Auden Quote: “We honor founders of these starving cities, Whose honor is the image of our sorrow.”

351. “We honor founders of these starving cities, Whose honor is the image of our sorrow.”

W.H. Auden Quote: “That the speech of self-disclosure should be translatable seems to me very odd, but I am convinced that it is. The conclusion that I draw is that the only quality which all human being without exception possess is uniqueness: any characteristic, on the other hand, which one individual can be recognized as having in common with another, like red hair or the English language, implies the existence of other individual qualities which this classification excludes.”

352. “That the speech of self-disclosure should be translatable seems to me very odd, but I am convinced that it is. The conclusion that I draw is that the only quality which all human being without exception possess is uniqueness: any characteristic, on the other hand, which one individual can be recognized as having in common with another, like red hair or the English language, implies the existence of other individual qualities which this classification excludes.”

353. “The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.”

W.H. Auden Quote: “The true men of action in our time, those who transform the world, are not the politicians and statesmen, but the scientists.”

354. “The true men of action in our time, those who transform the world, are not the politicians and statesmen, but the scientists.”

W.H. Auden Quote: “One can only blaspheme if one believes.”

355. “One can only blaspheme if one believes.”

W.H. Auden Quote: “From beginning to end Wilde performed his life and continued to do so even after fame had taken the plot out of his own hands.”

356. “From beginning to end Wilde performed his life and continued to do so even after fame had taken the plot out of his own hands.”

W.H. Auden Quote: “Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another.”

357. “Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another.”

W.H. Auden Quote: “It is time for the destruction of error.”

358. “It is time for the destruction of error.”

W.H. Auden Quote: “If people marry on the assumption that love must always overcome obstacles, they will either become unfaithful or they will make things difficult. The better you know someone, the better you can torture him: man and wife become each other’s devils.”

359. “If people marry on the assumption that love must always overcome obstacles, they will either become unfaithful or they will make things difficult. The better you know someone, the better you can torture him: man and wife become each other’s devils.”

W.H. Auden Quote: “In a tragic contradiction between the normal and the exceptional, there is suffering, in a comic contradiction, none.”

360. “In a tragic contradiction between the normal and the exceptional, there is suffering, in a comic contradiction, none.”

W.H. Auden Quote: “If a stranger in the train asks me my occupation, I never answer ‘writer’ for fear that he may go on to ask me what I write, and to answer poetry would embarrass us both.”

361. “If a stranger in the train asks me my occupation, I never answer ‘writer’ for fear that he may go on to ask me what I write, and to answer poetry would embarrass us both.”

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