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W. H. Auden

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Nasihat

To choose what is difficult all one's days, as if it were easy, that is faith.

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Harapan

To choose what is difficult all ones days, as if it were easy, that is faith.

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Kehidupan

Now is the age of anxiety.

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Sukses

The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

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Kreativitas

'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'

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Sukses

It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.

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Kreativitas

What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.

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Kreativitas

Art is born of humiliation.

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Kreativitas

A verbal art like poetry is reflective it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

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Sukses

It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.

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Pendidikan

Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.

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Kesabaran

All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him.

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Kreativitas

Music is the best means we have of digesting time.

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Kehidupan

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

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Kehidupan

Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.

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Motivasi

Learn from your dreams what you lack.

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Kreativitas

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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Harapan

May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that 'faith' is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?

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Kreativitas

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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Kehidupan

Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say.

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