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#1

“Poetry might be defined as the clear expression of mixed feelings.”
― W.H. Auden, New Year Letter

tags: poetry

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“He was my North, my South, my East and West,
My working week and my Sunday rest,
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;
I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong.”
― W. H. Auden, Collected Poems

tags: death, love, poetry

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#3

“I will love you forever" swears the poet. I find this easy to swear too. "I will love you at 4:15 pm next Tuesday" - Is that still as easy?”
― W.H. Auden

tags: love, poetry

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“What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.”
― W. H. Auden, The Dyer's Hand and Other Essays

tags: consumerism, entertainment, mass-media, television

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#5

“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
― William Butler Yeats

tags: education, lifelong-learning

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#6

“There is another world, but it is in this one.”
― William Butler Yeats

tags: misattributed

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#7

“Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.”
― William Butler Yeats

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#8

“Sometimes when we are labeled, when we are branded our brand becomes our calling.”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

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#9

“He shall spurn fate, scorn death, and bear
His hopes 'bove wisdom, grace and fear:
And you all know, security
Is mortals' chiefest enemy.”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

tags: security

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#10

“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

tags: authors, books, literature, reading, writing

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#11

“Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

tags: books, literature, philosphy, poetry, reading

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#12

“That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

tags: belonging, company, desires, literature, longings

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#13

“Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.”
― Terry Pratchett

tags: fantasy, humor, imagination, literature, stories

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“Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

tags: fantasy, literature, philosophy

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#15

“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
― Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature

tags: books, classics, literature, meaning, reading, words

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#16

“Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.”
― Charles Dickens

tags: literature

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#17

“A good book is an event in my life.”
― Stendhal, The Red and the Black

tags: books, literature, reading

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#18

“Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

tags: literature, reading, solitude

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#19

“That's what literature is. It's the people who went before us, tapping out messages from the past, from beyond the grave, trying to tell us about life and death! Listen to them!”
― Connie Willis, Passage

tags: death, life, literature, messages

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#20

“I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things.”
― George Gissing

tags: books, literature, nose, reading

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#21

“Literature is news that stays news.”
― Ezra Pound, ABC of Reading

tags: books, literature, reading

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#22

“The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.”
― Thomas Jefferson

tags: education, illiteracy, journalism, literature

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#23

“Life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly. Literature tries to document this reality, while showing us it is still possible for us to endure nobly.”
― Matthew Quick, The Silver Linings Playbook

tags: endurance, feelings-of-weakness, happiness, life, literature, movie, sadness

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#24

“We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.”
― Anne Frank

tags: happiness, literature

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#25

“Sometimes two people have to fall apart, to realize how much they need to fall back together.”
― Colleen Hoover

tags: literature, love

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#26

“People wonder why the novel is the most popular form of literature; people wonder why it is read more than books of science or books of metaphysics. The reason is very simple; it is merely that the novel is more true than they are.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: literature, novels, reading

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#27

“Even bad books are books and therefore sacred.”
― G眉nter Grass, The Tin Drum

tags: books, literature, quality, sacredness

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#28

“Have no fear of your ambitions.Stare them in the face ,fulfill them.Remember nothing is impossible...”
― Alex Rutherford, Raiders from the North

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#29

“Dreams of greatness came easily. Achieving it was harder.”
― Alex Rutherford, Raiders from the North

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#30

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

tags: better-life-empathy

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