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

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Tigers die and leave their skins; people die and leave their names. – Japanese Proverb

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

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