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

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

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

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