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One never knows really how things are with other people, they just do always seem more spirited than oneself somehow.

Oh Lion in a peculiar guise,
Sharp Roman road to Paradise,
Come eat me up, I'll pay thy toll
With all my flesh, and keep my soul.

You must have some money if you are going to live simply. It need not be much, but you must have some.

I love people, but I love the thought and memory of them just as much.

My heart was full of softening showers,
I used to swing like this for hours,
I did not care for war or death,
I was glad to draw my breath.

Some are born for peace and joy
Some are born for sorrow
But only for a day as we
Shall not be here tomorrow

I don't think Auden liked my poetry very much, he's very Anglican.

I am hungry to be interrupted
For ever and ever amen

As Nature is always careless and indifferent
Who sees, who steps, means nothing and this is pretty.

Unpopular, lonely and loving, Elinor need not trouble, For if she were not so loving, She would not be so miserable.

Why does my muse only speak when she is uhnhappy? She does not, I only listen when I am unhappy.

If there wasn't death, I think you couldn't go on.

I'll have your heart, if not by gift my knife Shall carve it out. I'll have your heart, your life.

So I fancy my Muse says, when I wish to die, Oh no, Oh no, we are not yet friends enough, And Virtue also says: We are not yet friends enough.

Youth is an arithmetical statement of passing interest, each hour eats it up.

Life may be treacherous, but you can always depend on death.

Love is not love that wounded bleeds And bleeding sullies slow. Come death within my hands and I Unto my love will go.

My Muse sits forlorn
She wishes she had not been born
She sits in the cold
No word she says is ever told.

The religion of Christianity Is mixed of sweetness and cruelty Reject this Sweetness, for she wears A smoky dress out of hell fires.

Hope and desire,
All unfulfilled,
Have more than rope
And hangman killed.

The flower and fruit of love are mine The ant, the fieldmouse and the mole

Away with them, away; we should not believe fairy stories if we wish to be good. Think of them as persons from the fairy wood.

A great artist ... takes what he did not make and makes of it something that only he can make ...

I made Man with too many faults. Yet I love him. And if he wishes, I have a home above for him.

If I lie down on my bed I must be here,
But if I lie down in my grave I may be elsewhere.

The world is come upon me, I used to keep it a long way off, But now I have been run over and I am in the hands of the hospital staff.

There can be no good art that is international. Art to be vigorous and gesund must use the material at hand.

This Englishwoman is so refined, She has no bosom and no behind.

Death's not a separation or alteration or parting; it's just a one-handled door.

The human creature is alone in his carapace. Poetry is a strong way out.

Who is this that comes in grandeur, coming from the blazing East? This is he we had not thought of, this is he the airy Christ.

A man may forgive many wrongs, but he cannot easily forgive anyone who makes it plain that his conversation is tedious.