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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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How happy the lot of the mathematician. He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that no colleague or rival can ever win a reputation he does not deserve.
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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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Those to whom evil is doneDo evil in return.
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It is nonsense to speak of 'higher' and 'lower' pleasures. To a hungry man it is, rightly, more important that he eat than that he philosophize.
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From beginning to end Wilde performed his life and continued to do so even after fame had taken the plot out of his own hands.
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Anyone who has a child today should train him to be either a physicist or a ballet dancer. Then he'll escape.
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The primary function of poetry, as of all the arts, is to make us more aware of ourselves and the world around us. I do not know if such increased awareness makes us more moral or more efficient. I hope not. I think it makes us more human, and I am quite certain it makes us more difficult to deceive.
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Out on the lawn I lie in bed, Vega conspicuous overhead.
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Time and fevers burn away Individual beauty from Thoughtful children, and the grave Proves the child ephemeral
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The true men of action in our time, those who transform the world, are not the politicians and statesmen, but the scientists
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There is no love There are only the various envies, all of them sad.
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Good can imagine Evil but Evil cannot imagine Good.
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I and the public know What all schoolchildren learn, Those to whom evil is done Do evil in return.
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In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.
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August for the people and their favourite islands. Daily the steamers sidle up to meet The effusive welcome of the pier.
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It's better to say, 'I'm suffering,' than to say, 'This landscape is ugly.
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There's only one good test of pornography. Get twelve normal men to read the book, and then ask them, ''Did you get an erection?'' If the answer is ''Yes'' from a majority of the twelve, then the book is pornographic.
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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.
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If there are any souls in hell, it is because that is where they insist on being.
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But once in a while the odd thing happens Once in a while the dream comes true And the whole pattern of life is altered Once in a while, the moon turns blue
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