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• We are here on earth to do good for others. What the others are here for, I don't know.
  -- W. H. Auden....
• When one has great gifts, what answer to the meaning of existence should one require beyond the right to exercise them?
  -- W. H. Aude...
• A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us. -- W. H. Aude
• Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
  -- Thomas Carlyle...
• It is only with the heart one can see clearly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
  -- The Fox, 'The Little Prince...
• To save your world you asked this man to die; Would this man, could he see you now, ask why?
  -- W. H. Auden (1907-1973), Epitaph for an Unknown Soldie...
• The stars are made of the same atoms as the earth." I usually pick one small topic like this to give a lecture on.
  Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars -- mere gobs of gas atoms....
• A poet's hope: to be, like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere. -- W. H. Aude
• The high-water mark, so to speak, of Socialist literature is W.
  H. Auden, a sort of gutless Kipling. -- George Orwell...