Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable. W. H. Auden Next Quote For who can bear to feel himself forgotten? - W. H. Auden Previous Quote Narcissus does not fall in love with his reflection because it is beautiful, but because it is his. If it were his beauty that enthralled him, he would be set free in a few years by its fading. - W. H. Auden