“Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable.”— W. H. Auden, A Certain World: A Commonplace Book (1970)Share
“The basic stimulus to the intelligence is doubt, a feeling that the meaning of an experience is not self-evident.”— W. H. AudenShare
“Any one thing in the creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to an humble and grateful mind.”— EpictetusShare
“Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.”— AristotleShare
