#ld

Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#aim #always #authenticity #bother #confuse

It's a very good thing for students also to be exposed to people who aren't film students or film scholars but who work in the world of film. ↗

— Robert Mayer

#exposed #film #good #good thing #people

Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#him #makes #often #proud #seldom

In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a unique perspective on the world, a member of a class of one. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#each #equal #member #person #perspective

A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children. ↗

— John James Audubon

#children #fathers #given #his #knows

Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#heavy #mist #remote #sob #spin

The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#developed #faces #like #masks #own

But hopes are Shy Birds flying at a great distance seldom reached by the best of Guns. ↗

— John James Audubon

#birds #distance #flying #great #great distance

After all, I long to be in America again, nay, if I can go home to return no more to Europe, it seems to me that I shall ever enjoy more peace of mind, and even Physical comfort than I can meet with in any portion of the world beside. ↗

— John James Audubon

#again #america #any #beside #comfort

In my deepest troubles, I frequently would wrench myself from the persons around me and retire to some secluded part of our noble forests. ↗

— John James Audubon

#deepest #forests #frequently #i #me