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Get smart, work hard and remain truthful to those who have taught you something to better love and serve your dancing. — Nelly Mazloum

I leave a lot open so I can fill it in later. If I don't have any ideas right away, I can fill it in later. — Jaime Hernandez

Recipe for the upbringing of a poet: 'As much neurosis as the child can bear. — W. H. Auden

And by the way, the fact that she's not speaking to anyone in her family is a pretty good indicator that she is the problem. — Chelsea Handler

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

A poet must never make a statement simply because it is sounds poetically exciting; he must also believe it to be true. — W. H. Auden

A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects. — W. H. Auden

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. — W. H. Auden

U.A.E.'s continuously growing initiatives in the field of charitable and humanitarian works became a basic component of our foreign activities. — Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan

A culture," the poet W. H. Auden observed, "is no better than its woods. — Chris Hedges

A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb. — W. H. Auden

Auden is a poet - no, the poet - of unembarrassed intellect. Ideas are his emotions, emotions are his ideas. — Cynthia Ozick

The chances are that, in the course of his lifetime, the major poet will write more bad poems than the minor, simply because major poets write a lot. — W. H. Auden

Every poet has his dream reader: mine keeps a look out for curious prosodic fauna like bacchics and choriambs. — W. H. Auden

You will be a poet because you will always be humiliated. — W. H. Auden

What the poet says has never been said before, but, once he has said it, his readers recognize its validity for themselves. — W. H. Auden

A poet's hope: to be, like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere. — W. H. Auden

As a poet, there is only one political duty, and that is to defend one's language from corruption. — W. H. Auden

The poet marries the language, and out of this marriage the poem is born. — W. H. Auden

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

In short, it became possible - never easy, but possible - in the poet Auden's phrase to find the mortal world enough. — Stephen Greenblatt

Don't reason in the mind just obey in the spirit. — Joyce Meyer

RUMOUR:
Upon my tongues continual slanders ride,
The which in every language I pronounce,
Stuffing the ears of men with false reports. — William Shakespeare

Sometimes they'll have performances and invite me to be a featured soloist. I think that is what they call it in that world-"featured soloist." — Will Oldham

no poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it. — W. H. Auden