Choice of attention to pay attention to this and ignore that is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer.

W. H. Auden
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  1. Some books are undeservedly forgotten none are undeservedly remembered.

  2. Cathedrals Luxury liners laden with souls Holding to the east their hulls of stone.

  3. Let us humour if we can The vertical man Though we value none But the horizontal one.

  4. Choice of attention to pay attention to this and ignore that is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer.

  5. Choice of attention ... 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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