Quotes of W. H. Auden

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All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work "comes" to him.

- W. H. Auden

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“ It is better to be respected than it is to be popular. Popularity ends on yearbook day, but respect lasts forever. ”

- John Bytheway

“ Spend the afternoon, you can't take it with you. ”

- Annie Dillard

“ Armed with positive thoughts, it becomes easier to focus on your goals, while the opposite also holds true. ”

- Stephen Richards

“ I was watching the first raindrops falling down on the porous ground. Each drop disappeared eagerly into the sand without any hesitations. The Earth, in turn, embraced it warmly like it has gotten back something precious that once belonged to it. I, somehow, thought that this particular image suited more our story than anything else ”

- Ismaaciil C. Ubax

“ The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. ”

- Émile Zola

“ A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided. ”

- Anthony Robbins

“ Mythology is not a lie, mythology is poetry, it is metaphorical. It has been well said that mythology is the penultimate truthpenultimate because the ultimate cannot be put into words. It is beyond words. Beyond images, beyond that bounding rim of the Buddhist Wheel of Becoming. Mythology pitches the mind beyond that rim, to what can be known but not told. ”

- Joseph Campbell

“ Perfection does not exist you can always do better and you can always grow. ”

- Les Brown

“ Do it big, do it right, and do it with style. ”

- Fried Astaire

“ Do you have to make me feel like there's nothing left of me? You can take everything I have, you can break everything I am, like I am made of glass, like I am made of paper.Go on and try to tear me down I will be rising from the ground like a Skyscraper... ”

- Demi Lovato

“ It’s not bragging if you can back it up. ”

- Muhammad Ali

“ After your first failure, the occurrence of a second failure closely depends on what you have learned from your past mistakes and whether or not you have drawn some valuable lessons. ”

- JOHN TASKINSOY

“ You have to be the bravest person in the world to go out every day, being yourself when no one likes who you are. ”

- Matthew

“ Anything under God's control is never out of control. ”

- Charles Swindoll

“ Money can buy you a fine dog, but only love can make him wag his tail. ”

- Ellen DeGeneres

“ I have come from the End of the World. From the River of Dreams, through the gauntlet and the Briar and the Deep Wyld, in order to stand before you today. I have but one request—to take my place at your side. To resume my duty as your knight, and to protect you and your kingdom for as long as I draw breath. ”

- Julie Kagawa

“ In school we learn that mistakes are bad, and we are punished for making them. Yet, if you look at the way humans are designed to learn, we learn by making mistakes. We learn to walk by falling down. If we never fell down, we would never walk. ”

- Robert T. Kiyosaki

“ Repentance is not at an end, Instead it’s the beginning of how it ends. ”

- Yeth Bisto

“ At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. ”

- Plato

“ Sometimes, as we're stumbling along in the dark, we hit something good. ”

- Susan Ee

“ I pray you, do not fall in love with me, for I am falser than vows made in wine. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ I believe in love the verb, not the noun. ”

- Greg Behrendt

“ Don’t marry him. Don’t be with him. Be with me. ”

- Jenny Han

“ Time is persistent, and we need to make the best of it. ”

- Charlena E. Jackson