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

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Name is a fence and within it you are nameless. – Samuli Paronen

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