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Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.
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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All wishes, whatever their apparent content, have the same and unvarying meaning: I refuse to be what I am.
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The most important truths are likely to be those which society at that time least wants to hear.
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I see little hope for a peaceful world until men are excluded from the realm of foreign policy altogether and all decisions concerning international relations are reserved for women, preferably married ones.
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To choose what is difficult all one's days, as if it were easy, that is faith
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Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone. Silence the pianos and with muffled drum Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.
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Money is the necessity that frees us from necessity.
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Doom is dark and deeper than any sea-dingle.
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Say this city has ten million souls, Some are living in mansions, some are living in holes: Yet there’s no place for us, my dear, yet there’s no place for us.
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It is, for example, axiomatic that we should all think of ourselves as being more sensitive than other people because, when we are insensitive in our dealings with others, we cannot be aware of it at the time: conscious insensitivity is a self-contradiction.
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Christmas and Easter can be subjects for poetry, but Good Friday, like Auschwitz, cannot. The reality is so horrible it is not surprising that people should have found it a stumbling block to faith.
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Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
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In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.
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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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To save your world you asked this man to die would this man, could he see you now, ask why?
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The image of myself which I try to create in my own mind in order that I may love myself is very different from the image which I try to create in the minds of others in order that they may love me.
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No being can make another one happy.
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Time will say nothing but I told you so, Time only knows the price we have to pay If I could tell you I would let you know.
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Blessed be all metrical rules that forbid automatic responses, force us to have second thoughts, free us from the fetters of Self.
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