"There are some good things and some fantastic ones in Auden's early attitude; if the reader calls it a muddle I shall acquiesce, with the remark that the later position might be considered a more rarefied muddle. But poets rather specialize in muddles and I have no doubt which of the muddles was better for Auden's poetry: one was fertile and usable, the other decidedly is not. Auden sometimes seems to be saying with Henry Clay, "I had rather be right than poetry"; but I am not sure, then, that he is either."

-- Randall Jarrell

#Attitude Quotes #Doubt Quotes #Might Quotes

“Time is more important than price. When time is up price will reverse.”
“Once I decide I want to do something, I just work really hard and I do it, and I just know it's going to work. I think really positively.”

Source : "Holly Madison talks family, career and casting decisions as she ends ‘Peepshow’ run". Interview with John Katsilometes, lasvegassun.com. October 23, 2012.
“Being serious just makes me a little bit embarrassed.”

Source : "Patricia Marx Tells A Tale Of Sweet, Unbalanced Love". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block, www.npr.org. September 13, 2011.
“This pain, this dying, this is just normal. This is how life is. In fact, I realize, there never was an earthquake. Life is just this way, broken, and I am crazy for dreaming of something else.”
“In an age that has thrown off all tradition, the only rebellion possible is orthodoxy.”
“The opposite of courage is not so much fear as it is conformity.”
“Oh, my ways are strange ways and new ways and old ways, And deep ways and steep ways and high ways and low, I'm at home and at ease on a track that I know not, And restless and lost on a road that I know.”

Source : Henry Lawson, Walter Stone (1973). “Poems of Henry Lawson”, Sydney : Ure Smith
“New York has always prided itself on its bad manners. That is the real source of our strength.”

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