W. H. Auden Quotes

Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.

W. H. Auden

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: February 21, 1907 - September 29, 1973

Topics

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If we kept all the players I liked personally, we'd be a lot worse team over the years.

Jerry Reinsdorf

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I find that most home cooks don't get vinegars. They're misunderstood, mostly due to the factory-made red wine vinegar that everyone commonly cooks with... that, and the giant gallon of white distilled vinegar that we all use, mostly to clean and disinfect things!

Andrew Zimmern

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Anyone who believes that the eternal question of war and peace in Europe is no longer there risks being deeply mistaken.

Jean-Claude Juncker

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Slavery is not the only question which comes up in this controversy. There is a far more important one to you, and that is, what shall be done with the free negro?

Stephen Douglas

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I don't know if my faith stems from what I'd call unconditional love, but the energy certainly feels boundless.

Stacey D'Erasmo

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One of my songs was on a jazz station for awhile. It was a song that I wrote for a jazz sax player friend of mine, and I sang and played the guitar on it.

Trevor Donovan

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People identify with being heartbroken. We've all been heartbroken, haven't we? I've been dumped, and it feels horrible.

Rob James-Collier

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So many athletes are afraid to use their platform to do the right thing and speak what they feel, and that's very depressing. Sure, they are afraid of insulting people and losing money because of it, and everyone wants to make the maximum amount of money in their lifetime. But at the expense of who you are? I don't know. That just wasn't in my DNA.

Martina Navratilova

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'Meat' is a vague term and can be used to refer to many parts of an animal, including internal organs and skin. For the most part, the meat we eat consists of muscle tissue taken from farm animals, whether it's a sirloin steak, which is cut from the rear of a cow, or a pork chop, taken from flesh near the spine of a pig.

Michael Specter

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The Clintons represent three decades of the Democrat party being completely sure of getting the black vote, while doing nothing to help the black community in return.

Milo Yiannopoulos

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There were no secrets in my house. I always knew what was going on.

Julia Garner

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Things that look like an 'overnight success' typically are not.

Jason Calacanis

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