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A poet's hope: to be, like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere.

A poet's hope: to be, like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere.

W. H. Auden
Hope, Food, Cooking
Collected Poems (1976) p. 639

Courses in prosody, rhetoric and comparative philology would be required of all students, and every student would have to select three courses out of courses in mathematics, natural history, geology, meteorology, archaeology, mythology, liturgics, cooking.

W. H. Auden
Cooking, Meteorology, Would Be

Be subtle, various, ornamental, clever, And do not listen to those critics ever Whose crude provincial gullets crave in books Plain cooking made still plainer by plain cooks.

W. H. Auden
Clever, Book, Cooking

Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession.

W. H. Auden
Food, Cooking, Murder

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