

“Take me someplace where we can be silent together.”
― The Signature of All Things
― The Signature of All Things

“Don't waste your love on somebody, who doesn't value it.”
― Romeo and Juliet
― Romeo and Juliet

“A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.”
― The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose, Volume II: 1939-1948
― The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose, Volume II: 1939-1948

“The stars are not wanted now: put out every one;
Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun;
Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood.
For nothing now can ever come to any good.”
― Selected Poems
Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun;
Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood.
For nothing now can ever come to any good.”
― Selected Poems

“Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.”
― The Dyer's Hand and Other Essays
― The Dyer's Hand and Other Essays

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