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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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Behind you swiftly the figure comes softly, The spot on your skin is a shocking disease.
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A dead man who never caused others to die seldom rates a statue.
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Political history is far too criminal to be a fit subject of study for the young. Children should acquire their heroes and villians from fiction.
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The camera may do justice to laughter, but must degrade sorrow.
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The stars are not wanted now, put out every one Pack up the moon & dismantle the sun.
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Time will say nothing but I told you so.
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Of course, Behaviourism 'works'. So does torture. Give me a no-nonsense, down-to-earth behaviourist, a few drugs, and simple electrical appliances, and in six months I will have him reciting the Athanasian Creed in public.
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Yet no one hears his own remarks as prose.
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I'm always amazed at the American practice of allowing one party to a homosexual act to remain passive--it's so undemocratic. Sexmust be mutual.
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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.
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To be happy means to be free, not from pain or fear, but from care or anxiety.
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A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb.
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There are three cardinal rules - don't take somebody else's boyfriend unless you've been specifically invited to do so, don't take a drink without being asked, and keep a scrupulous accounting in financial matters.
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My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.
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You need not see what someone is doing to know if it is his vocation, you have only to watch his eyes: a cook mixing a sauce, a surgeon making a primary incision, a clerk completing a bill of lading wear the same rapt expression, forgetting themselves in a function. How beautiful it is, that eye-on-the-obje ct look.
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You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared relation between two people.
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As a poet, there is only one political duty, and that is to defend one's language from corruption.
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