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W. H. Auden
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W. H. Auden
Age: 66 †
Born: 1907
Born: February 21
Died: 1973
Died: September 28
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My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.
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Soft as the earth is mankind and both need to be altered.
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All I have is a voice.
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Adjectives are the potbelly of poetry.
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Marriage is rarely bliss But, surely it would be worse As particles to pelt At thousands of miles per sec About a universe In which a lover's kiss Would either not be felt Or break the loved one's neck.
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