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151. “Harrow the house of the dead; look shining at New styles of architecture, a change of heart.”

W.H. Auden

Change, Renewal, Architecture, Metaphor, Transformation

152. “The poet marries the language, and out of this marriage the poem is born.”

W.H. Auden

Poetry, Language, Creativity, Metaphor, Artistic Process

153. “A poet's hope: to be, like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere.”

W.H. Auden

Poetry, Aspiration, Local, Universal Appeal, Metaphor

154. “The lights must never go out, The music must always play.”

W.H. Auden

Continuity, Entertainment, Distraction, Societal Expectations, Metaphor

155. “In life the loser's score is always zero.”

W.H. Auden

Life, Competition, Failure, Perspective, Metaphor

156. “History marches to the drum of a clear idea.”

W.H. Auden

History, Ideas, Progress, Clarity, Metaphor

157. “If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away.”

W.H. Auden

Time, Metaphor, Control, Empowerment, Western Imagery

158. “The world needs a wash and a week's rest.”

W.H. Auden

World-weariness, Rest, Renewal, Metaphor, Social Commentary

159. “All the rest is silence On the other side of the wall, And the silence ripeness, And the ripeness all.”

W.H. Auden

Silence, Completeness, Metaphor, Finality, Poetic Imagery

160. “Human language is mythological and metaphorical by nature.”

W.H. Auden

Language, Mythology, Metaphor, Human Nature, Communication

161. “The wolves will get you if the moths won't.”

W.H. Auden

Danger, Inevitability, Metaphor, Predation, Vulnerability

162. “My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.”

W.H. Auden

Self-deprecation, Aging, Metaphor, Appearance, Humor

163. “Money cannot buy the fuel of love but is excellent kindling.”

W.H. Auden

Love, Money, Relationships, Metaphor, Materialism

164. “Music is the best means we have of digesting time.”

W.H. Auden

Music, Time, Perception, Experience, Metaphor

165. “The older lives like not to be stood in rows or at right angles.”

W.H. Auden

Aging, Conformity, Individuality, Rebellion, Metaphor

166. “Adjectives are the potbelly of poetry.”

W.H. Auden

Poetry, Language, Criticism, Excess, Metaphor

167. “Life is a picnic on a precipice.”

W.H. Auden

Life, Danger, Enjoyment, Precariousness, Metaphor

168. “Cathedrals, luxury liners laden with souls, Holding to the east their hulls of stone.”

W.H. Auden

Architecture, Spirituality, Metaphor, Human Cargo, Religion

169. “With the farming of a verse Make a vineyard of the curse.”

W.H. Auden

Poetry, Transformation, Creativity, Metaphor, Redemption

170. “Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.”

W.H. Auden

Death, Metaphor, Tranquility Disrupted, Mortality, Poetic Imagery

171. “To make war upon rebellion is messy and slow, like eating soup with a knife.”

T.E. Lawrence

Warfare, Rebellion, Difficulty, Metaphor, Strategic Challenges

172. “We lived always in the stretch or sag of nerves, either on the crest or in the trough of waves of feeling.”

T.E. Lawrence

Emotional Extremes, War Experience, Psychological State, Metaphor, Intensity

173. “To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one's tail.”

T.E. Lawrence

Fame, Media, Metaphor, Public Attention, Notoriety

174. “War upon rebellion was messy and slow, like eating soup with a knife.”

T.E. Lawrence

Warfare, Rebellion, Difficulty, Metaphor, Strategic Challenges

175. “Since the adventure some of those who worked with me have buried themselves in the shallow grave of public duty.”

T.E. Lawrence

Public Service, Disillusionment, Adventure, Responsibility, Metaphor

176. “I haven't got a heart: only the former site of one, with a monument there to say that it has been removed and the area it occupied turned into a public garden, in pursuance of the slum-clearance scheme.”

T.E. Lawrence

Emotional Detachment, Metaphor, Urban Planning, Self-perception, Cynicism

177. “I'm right there, swimming the river of hardships but I know how to swim.”

Jack Kerouac

Resilience, Struggle, Ability, Metaphor, Life Challenges

178. “The bottom of the world is gold and the world is upside down.”

Jack Kerouac

Perspective, World, Perception, Philosophy, Metaphor

179. “Work from pithy middle eye out, swimming in language sea.”

Jack Kerouac

Language, Creativity, Expression, Metaphor, Imagination

180. “Never did a prisoner, released from his chains, feel such relief as I shall on shaking off the shackles of power.”

Thomas Jefferson

Freedom, Power, Relief, Personal Liberation, Metaphor

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