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Quote by W.H. Auden
A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gou

A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gourmets, some gourmands, and a good many take their images precooked out of a can and swallow them down whole, absent-mindedly and with little relish. – W.H. Auden

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Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable. – W.H. Auden

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It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it. – W.H. Auden

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I am afraid I have done sadly too much sitting and dreaming since I have been up. – James Ward (1843–1925), letter to H.J.W., 1873

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I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering. – Steven Wright

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Sometimes, in a summer morning, having taken my accustomed bath, I sat in my sunny doorway from sunrise till noon, rapt in reverie. – Henry David Thoreau

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