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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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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Poetry
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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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Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive. – Thomas C. Haliburton

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Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names.. – Proverb

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Fate tried to conceal him by naming him Smith. – Oliver Wendell Holmes,Jr.

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As though there were a tie And obligation to posterity. We get them, bear them, breed, and nurse: What has posterity done for us. That we, lest they their rights should lose, Should trust our necks to gripe of noose? – John Trumbull

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