Quote by W.H. Auden
Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untra

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

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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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“Healing,” Papa would tell me, “is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.” – W.H. Auden

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Pen names are masks that allow us to unmask ourselves. – Terri Guillemets

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Women have had the power of naming stolen from us. – Mary Daly

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A nickname is the hardest stone that the devil can throw at a man. – Author unknown, quoted by William Hazlitt

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If names are not correct, language will not be in accordance with the truth of things. – Confucius

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