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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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A shilling life will give you all the facts.
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No being can make another one happy.
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All poets adore explosions, thunderstorms, tornadoes, conflagrations, ruins, scenes of spectacular carnage. The poetic imagination is not at all a desirable quality in a statesman.
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Caesar's double-bed is warm As an unimportant clerk Writes i do not like my work On a pink official form.
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The theater has never been any good since the actors became gentlemen.
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What the poet says has never been said before, but, once he has said it, his readers recognize its validity for themselves.
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Adjectives are the potbelly of poetry.
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It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.
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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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