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Like love we don't know where or why Like love we cant compel or fly Like Love we often weep Like Love we seldom keep
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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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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Machines are beneficial to the degree that they eliminate the need for labor, harmful to the degree that they eliminate the need for skill.
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There are bills to be paid, machines to keep in repair, Irregular verbs to learn, the Time Being to redeem From insignificance.
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Words have no word for words that are not true.
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The parlour cars and Pullmans are packed also with scented assassins, salad-eaters who murder on milk.
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The law cannot forgive, for the law has not been wronged, only broken only persons can be wronged. The law can pardon, but it can only pardon what it has the power to punish.
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Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say.
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Alone, alone, about the dreadful wood / Of conscious evil runs a lost mankind, / Dreading to find its Father.
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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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Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable.
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It's a pity I am so impatient and careless, as any ordinary person could learn all the techniques of photography in a week. It is the democratic art, i.e. technical skill is practically eliminated - the more foolproof cameras become with focusing and exposure gadgets the better - and artistic quality depends only on choice of subject.
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You will be a poet because you will always be humiliated.
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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.
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All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.
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The most difficult problem in personal knowledge, whether of oneself or of others, is the problem of guessing when to think as a historian and when to think as an anthropologist.
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We are lived by powers we pretend to understand.
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Some books are undeservedly forgotten none are undeservedly remembered.
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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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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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Poetry is the only art people haven't learned to consume like soup.
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