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W.H. Auden
The surest way to discipline passion is to discipline time: decide what you want or ought to do during the day, then always do it at exactly the same moment every day, and passion will give you no trouble.
W.H. Auden
Discipline
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Passion
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Time Management
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Routine
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Self-control
W.H. Auden’s Quotes On Topics
Genealogy
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Self-awareness
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Cultural Norms
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Impossibility
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Urban Life
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Literary Appreciation
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Decline
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Ancestral Connection
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Writers
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Everyday Objects
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Diversity
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Literary Studies
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Sadness
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Divine Perspective
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Survival
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Loyalty
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Travel
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Human Need
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Virtue
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Commissioning
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“Art is born of humiliation.”
W.H. Auden
Art
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Creativity
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Suffering
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Expression
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Emotional Depth
“Long ago the accusations had begun, And suddenly knew by whom it had been judged.”
W.H. Auden
Judgment
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Accusations
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Awareness
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Accountability
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Introspection
“All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him.”
W.H. Auden
Art
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Creativity
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Inspiration
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Artistic Process
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Commissioning
“We who must die demand a miracle. How could the Eternal do a temporal act, The Infinite become a finite fact? Nothing can save us that is possible: We who must die demand a miracle.”
W.H. Auden
Mortality
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Miracles
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Eternity
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Human Condition
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Paradox
“To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself.”
W.H. Auden
Prayer
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Attention
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Selflessness
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Spirituality
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Focus
“A poem is a verbal artifact which must be as skillfully and solidly constructed as a table or a motorcycle.”
W.H. Auden
Poetry
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Craftsmanship
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Construction
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Comparison
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Artistic Skill
“The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.”
W.H. Auden
Legacy
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Interpretation
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Memory
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Language
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Influence
“Detective stories have nothing to do with works of art.”
W.H. Auden
Detective Fiction
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Art
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Literary Criticism
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Genre Distinction
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Value Judgment
“Few people take an interest in Iceland, but in those few the interest is passionate.”
W.H. Auden
Iceland
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Passion
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Niche Interest
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Dedication
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Exclusivity
“The law cannot forgive, for the law has not been wronged, only broken; only persons can be wronged. The law can pardon, but it can only pardon what it has the power to punish.”
W.H. Auden
Law
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Forgiveness
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Justice
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Power
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Human Nature
“In the deserts of the heart Let the healing fountain start.”
W.H. Auden
Healing
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Emotional Recovery
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Metaphor
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Inner Peace
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Self-discovery
“Out on the lawn I lie in bed, Vega conspicuous overhead.”
W.H. Auden
Stargazing
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Perspective
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Nature
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Human Smallness
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Poetic Imagery
“The glacier knocks in the cupboard, The desert sighs in the bed, And the crack in the teacup opens A lane to the land of the dead.”
W.H. Auden
Mortality
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Domestic Imagery
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Surrealism
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Death
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Everyday Objects
“Every high C accurately struck demolishes the theory that we are the irresponsible puppets of fate or chance.”
W.H. Auden
Music
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Free Will
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Skill
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Determinism
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Human Achievement
“Over the tea-cups and in the square the tongue has its desire; Still waters run deep, my dear, there's never smoke without fire.”
W.H. Auden
Desire
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Conversation
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Hidden Depths
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Proverbs
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Social Interactions
“Weep for the lives your wishes never led.”
W.H. Auden
Regret
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Unfulfilled Desires
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Choices
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Mourning
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Self-reflection
“To ask the hard question is simple.”
W.H. Auden
Questioning
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Simplicity
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Complexity
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Inquiry
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Philosophical Thought
“Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible.”
W.H. Auden
Pleasure
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Criticism
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Fallibility
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Judgment
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Aesthetic Guide
“Money cannot buy the fuel of love but is excellent kindling.”
W.H. Auden
Love
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Money
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Relationships
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Metaphor
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Materialism
“The world needs a wash and a week's rest.”
W.H. Auden
World-weariness
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Rest
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Renewal
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Metaphor
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Social Commentary
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