October 2011
1 post
Law, Like Love
April 2011
37 posts
Yale Lecture, Auden (1/2) →
Yale Lecture, Auden (2/2) →
“Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among...”
“In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.”
“I don’t get acting jobs because of my looks.”
“God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich.”
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WatchAs I Walked Out One Evening
The Auden exhibit, Academy of American Poets. →
The Auden Society →
“Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as...”
“Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego,...”
“Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.”
“Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct...”
“A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.”
“A professor is someone who talks in someone else’s sleep.”
“A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with...”
“A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.”
“A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a...”
October 2010
2 posts
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