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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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“Healing,” Papa would tell me, “is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.” – 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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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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Tigers die and leave their skins; people die and leave their names. – Japanese Proverb

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The name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers. – Marshall McLuhan

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

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From our ancestors come our names, but from our virtues our honors. – Proverb

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