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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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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.
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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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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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To choose what is difficult all one's days, as if it were easy, that is faith
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A writer is a maker, not a man of action: his private life is of no concern to anybody but himself, his family and his friends.
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To hunt for symbols in a fairy tale is absolutely fatal.
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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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There was still gold and silver in the mountains, And hunger was a more immediate sorrow
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One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell.
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Criticism should be a casual conversation.
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When one looks into the window of a store which sells devotional art objects, one can't help wishing the iconoclasts had won.
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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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The chances are that, in the course of his lifetime, the major poet will write more bad poems than the minor, simply because major poets write a lot.
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An honest self-portrait is extremely rare because a man who has reached the degree of self-consciousness presupposed by the desire to paint his own portrait has almost always also developed an ego-consciousness which paints himself painting himself, and introduces artificial highlights and dramatic shadows.
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The surest sign that a man has a genuine taste of his own is that he is uncertain of it.
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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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A small grove massacred to the last ash, An oak with heart-rot, give away the show: This great society is going to smash They cannot fool us with how fast they go, How much they cost each other and the gods. A culture is no better than its woods.
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Moreover, if great men are the only hope of the Evolutionary Process, they are morally bound to rule over the masses for their own good -- we are all here on earth to help others: what on earth the others are here for, I don't know -- and the masses have no right whatsoever to resist them.
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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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All the literati keep An imaginary friend.
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