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The public may be willing to forgive us for mistakes in judgment but it will not forgive us for mistakes in motive.


Robert W. Haack

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W. H. DAVIES It has always been a wonder to me where my conversational power has gone: at the present time, I can...
W. H. DAVIES I like to see a good scientific bout by men who know the use of their hands but would rather walk tw...
W. H. DAVIES Mother's father and brothers all took great interest in pugilism, and they knew the game well fr...
W. H. DAVIES But cats to me are strange, so strange I cannot sleep if one is near.
W. H. DAVIES Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.
W. H. DAVIES How the snow falls in the north! Flake on flake falling incessantly, until the small dingles are alm...
W. H. DAVIES Being in this fine mood, I spoke to a little boy, whom I saw playing alone in the road, asking him w...
W. H. DAVIES What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare?
W. H. DAVIES I like to give pennies to children, but unfortunately, a man cannot do these things if he lives in a...
W. H. DAVIES As long as I love Beauty I am young.
W. H. DAVIES May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, consideri...
W. H. AUDEN All that we are not stares back at what we are.
W. H. AUDEN A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a ...
W. H. AUDEN To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?
W. H. AUDEN You owe it to all of us all get on with what you're good at.
W. H. AUDEN In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him ...
W. H. AUDEN 'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature...
W. H. AUDEN Art is born of humiliation.
W. H. AUDEN Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good.
W. H. AUDEN In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.
W. H. AUDEN Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.
W. H. AUDEN Comparing oneself with one's fellow writers is a bad idea. I would not review a fellow writer un...
W. G. SEBALD I always read the translator's draft all the way through - a very laborious business.
W. G. SEBALD Where I grew up, in a remote village at the back of a valley, the old still thought the dead needed ...
W. G. SEBALD Until I was 16 or 17, I had heard practically nothing about the history that preceded 1945. Only whe...
W. G. SEBALD