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Poetry makes nothing happen. It survives in the valley of its saying. W. H. Auden

23Nov2008 In : Quotes
Author : Frédérick Jézégou

Poetry makes nothing happen. It survives in the valley of its saying.
Quotations by W. H. Auden

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Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable. W. H. Auden
Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud. W. H. Auden
A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become. W. H. Auden
You must go to bed with friends or whores, where money makes up the difference in beauty or desire. W. H. Auden
When you expect things to happen — strangely enough — they do happen. John Pierpont Morgan
Only poetry inspires poetry. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men are disturbed not by things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen. Epictetus
If you don’t make things happen then things will happen to you. Lanes Company
Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Virtue survives the grave. Motto

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