The stars are dead. The animals will not look: We are left alone with our day, and the … - W. H. Auden

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Parting they seemed to tread upon the air, Twin roses by the zephyr blown apart Only to meet again more close.

W. H. Auden

The stars are dead. The animals will not look: We are left alone with our day, and the time is short, and History to the defeated May say Alas but cannot help nor pardon.

Animal, Animals, Dead, Help, Looks, Stars

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

Civilization, Diversity, Measured, Respect, Retained

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.

Change, Dread, Growth, Let, Religion, Ruined

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.

Avoided, Dangerous, Feelings, Lunatics, People, Politics

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

Earth, Funny, Help, Helping Others, Inspirational, Know

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

Back, Crazy, Mad, Stares, Staring

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John Keats

Parting they seemed to tread upon the air, Twin roses by the zephyr blown apart Only to meet again more close.

Air, Flower, Parting, Rose, Seemed, Zephyr

Virginia Woolf

How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself.

Coffee, Knives, Sea, Table, Things, Wings

Tom Stoppard

It's silly to be depressed by it. I mean one thinks of it like being alive in a box, one keeps forgetting to take into account the fact that one is dead, which should make all the difference, shouldn't it? I mean, you'd never know you were in a box would you?. . . Even taking into account the fact that you're dead, it isn't a pleasant thought. Especially if you're dead, really. Ask yourself, if I asked you straight off-- I'm going to stuff you in this box now would you rather be alive or dead? Naturally you'd prefer to be alive. Life in a box is better than no life at all.

Silly, Mean, Thinking, Naturally, Thinks, Box

Linda McQuaig

The statement, "The debt problem has become so extreme that we have no choice but to cut social spending" is presented as an objective assessment of our situation. But can you imagine a media commentator making the following assertion? "The debt problem has become so extreme that we have no choice but to raise taxes on the rich. "

Assessment, Become, Cutting, Making, Media, Objective

William Thurston

You don't see what you're seeing until you see it but when you do see it, it lets you see many other things.

Lets, See, Seeing, Things