"Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one."

-- W. H. Auden

#Responsibility Quotes #Aristocracy Quotes #Poetic Quotes

“If it's supposed to be a really passionate snog, you slip the tongue in.”
“All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.”

Source : Amelia Barr (2017). “All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography”, p.259, Litres
“I don't like being negative to people who are so nice to me.”
“If our church is not marked by caring for the poor, the oppressed, the hungry, we are guilty of heresy.”
“I think you have to be cool to be a good flirt, and I don't think I'm very cool.”
“Not only do we mock the Eurovision Song Contest itself, but we lampoon other European countries for taking it so seriously, and they all retaliate by voting for each other every year and ignoring our (sometimes) palpably superior songs. Accordingly, Britain has become the Millwall FC of Eurovision: we are hated, we know we are hated, and we pretend we are happy to be hated. It's actually quite a sad state of affairs.”
“I just don't know that a TV show demands a movie ending.”
“I think people understand things different when they get older. Itâ€™s not a question of getting soft, or seeing things in the gray areas instead of black and white. I really believe Iâ€™m just understanding things different. Better.”

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