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Oh, how I wish that Orwell were still alive, so that I could read his comments on contemporary events!
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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Every poet has his dream reader: mine keeps a look out for curious prosodic fauna like bacchics and choriambs.
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He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and my Sunday rest, My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong.
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The trees encountered on a country stroll Reveal a lot about that country's soul ... A culture is no better than its woods.
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Every man carries with him through life a mirror, as unique and impossible to get rid of as his shadow.
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Mad Ireland hurt you into poetry.
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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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Alone, alone, about the dreadful wood / Of conscious evil runs a lost mankind, / Dreading to find its Father.
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Look if you like, but you will have to leap.
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Good can imagine Evil but Evil cannot imagine Good.
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No being can make another one happy.
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To ask the hard question is simple.
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Sexual fidelity is more important in a homosexual relationship than in any other. In other relationships there are a variety of ties. But here, fidelity is the only bond.
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Now the leaves are falling fast, Nurse's flowers will not last Nurses to their graves are gone, And the prams go rolling on.
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The Americans are violently oral. That's why in America the mother is all-important and the father has no position at all -- isn't respected in the least. Even the American passion for laxatives can be explained as an oral manifestation. They want to get rid of any unpleasantness taken in through the mouth.
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The older lives like not to be stood in rows or at right angles.
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To the man-in-the-street, who, I'm sorry to say, is a keen observer of life. The word Intellectual suggests straight away. A man who's untrue to his wife.
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All the rest is silence On the other side of the wall, And the silence ripeness, And the ripeness all.
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Language is the mother, not the handmaiden, of thought words will tell you things you never thought or felt before.
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Without Art, we should have no notion of the sacred without Science, we should always worship false gods.
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