Reality itself is too twisted.
Be what you would seem to be.
There exists in the minds of men a tone of feeling toward women as toward slaves.
Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.
If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.
It was not meant that the soul should cultivate the earth, but that the earth should educate and maintain the soul.
We would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down. We would have every path laid open to women as freely as to men. If you ask me what offices they may fill, I reply-any. I do not care what case you put; let them be sea captains, if you will.
I'm an audience member first. My inspiration is still based on hunger. Often, when people try to tell me "nobody wants that story; I'm like bullshit because I want it. "
If you're really a rapper, you can't stop rapping.
One way or another, all the poets of the thirties and forties reacted to Auden, either by rejecting him or trying to absorb him.
Normally, I'm good at first dates, 'cause that's the only date I ever have, so I know how to control it and be confident.