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What is a Professor of Poetry? How can poetry be professed? - W.H.

What is a Professor of Poetry? How can poetry be professed? – 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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Daydreaming
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Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable. – W.H. Auden

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Names
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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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Poetry is never abandoned, it is only remixed. – James Schwartz

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Poetry

The whole thing about making films in an organic film on location is that its not all about characters, relationships and themes, its also about place and the poetry of place. Its about the spirit of what you find, the accidents of what you stumble across. – Mike Leigh

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Poetry

We are looking to brands for poetry and for spirituality, because were not getting those things from our communities or from each other. – Naomi Klein

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Poetry

A poet is someone who is astonished by everything. – Anon.

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Poetry

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When an inner situation is not made conscious it appears outside as fate. – Carl Jung

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