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When you can’t pour water out of your boot with a hole in it, you need to step back and see the answer right at your feet.


Robert W. Merriweather

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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 I was brought up largely by my grandfather because my father only returned from a prisoner-of-war ca...
W. G. SEBALD A subject which at first glance seems quite removed from the undeclared concern of the book can enca...
W. G. SEBALD Occasionally I write a small piece or the odd lecture in English, and I teach in English, but my fic...
W. G. SEBALD I don't want to talk about my trials and tribulations. Once you reveal even part of what your re...
W. G. SEBALD To my mind, it seems clear that those who have no memory have the much greater chance to lead happy ...
W. G. SEBALD You could grow up in Germany in the postwar years without ever meeting a Jewish person. There were s...
W. G. SEBALD People's ability to forget what they do not want to know, to overlook what is before their eyes,...
W. G. SEBALD I've always felt that the traditional novel doesn't give you enough information about the na...
W. G. SEBALD The moral backbone of literature is about that whole question of memory. To my mind it seems clear t...
W. G. SEBALD It is a sore point, because you do have advantages if you have access to more than one language. You...
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