Of all afflictions, the worst is self-contempt. …
Of all afflictions, the worst is self-contempt.
~ Berthold Auerbach
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A poet’s hope: to be, like some valley …
A poet’s hope: to be,
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local, but prized elsewhere.
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We are here on Earth to do …
We are here on Earth to do good to others. What the others are here…
Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are …
Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
~ W. H. Auden
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One cannot review a bad book without …
One cannot review a bad book without showing off.
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No opera plot can be sensible, for …
No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling…
Murder is unique in that it abolishes …
Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has…
False enchantment can last a lifetime. …
False enchantment can last a lifetime.
~ W. H. Auden
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Evil is unspectacular and always human, And shares …
Evil is unspectacular and always human,
And shares our bed and eats at our own…
Among those whom I like or admire, …
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among…
Or perhaps she’s just softening me up: …
Or perhaps she’s just softening me up: she’s a Baptist, she’d like me to find…
Another belief of mine: that everyone else …
Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am…