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Well, I don't call you an atheist then. I think if you believe in the awe and the wonder and the mystery, then that is what God is. That is what God is, not the bearded guy in the sky.

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W. H. Auden

The primary function of poetry, as of all the arts, is to make us more aware of ourselves and the world around us. I do not know if such increased awareness makes us more moral or more efficient. I hope not. I think it makes us more human, and I am quite certain it makes us more difficult to deceive.

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Civilizations should be measured by the degree of diversity attained and the degree of unity retained.

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We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and let our illusions die.

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My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth.

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We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.

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All that we are not stares back at what we are.

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