W. H. Auden Quotes

Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say.

W. H. Auden

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

HealthMedicineSayNothingState

From the Olympian heights of an executive suite, in an atmosphere where your success is judged by the extent to which you can maximise profits, the overwhelming tendency must be to see people as units of production, as indices in your accountants' books.

Jimmy Reid

SuccessPeopleYouHeightsSee

My songs tend to sprint toward some epiphany and then explode.

John Darnielle

EpiphanySongsSprintSomeThen

I'm getting the basics with the AFL, but the NFL is a different animal.

John Elway

AnimalBasicsNFLDifferentGetting

Once you have six children, you're committed.

Angelina Jolie

ChildrenYouSixCommittedOnce

I want all my pain to count for something.

Ann Jillian

PainWantCountSomething

I'm still a fan at heart.

Jeff Hardy

HeartStillFan

I had written here and there about my mother in my poems. There are poems for her in my first and second books.

Tracy K. Smith

MotherFirstHerHereBooksSecond

My mother is extraordinary. She understood me and never tried to hold me back.

Robbie Robertson

MotherMeBackNeverSheHold

I have been persecuted since I joined politics, and I have been living in persecution since then.

Roy Bennett

PoliticsLivingBeenPersecution

The financial crisis and the Great Recession demonstrated, in a dramatic and unmistakable manner, how extraordinarily vulnerable are the large share of American families with very few assets to fall back on. We have come far from the worst moments of the crisis, and the economy continues to improve.

Janet Yellen

GreatFinancialAmericanMoments

I conceived in art college at the age of 20, near the end of term.

Joni Mitchell

AgeArtCollegeEndNearConceived

I remember when we were doing the first Dragon's Lair, I got really involved with coming up with all the little rooms and what was the danger in the room and going into it with bats and spiders and snakes.

Don Bluth

DoingRememberFirstDragonUpRoom

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