"A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language."
-W. H. Auden
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"Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist.“
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"Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest."
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"Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods."
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"Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another."
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"Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh."
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"Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be."
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"A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes."
-Charles Spurgeon
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"We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls."
-Anais Nin
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"I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train."
-Oscar Wilde
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"Every perfect traveler always creates the country where he travels."
-Nikos Kazantzakis
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"The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page."
-Saint Augustine
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"Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed."
-Howard Nemerov
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