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Look if you like, but you will have to leap.
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 only reason the Protestants and Catholics have given up the idea of universal domination is because they've realised they can't get away with it.
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Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable.
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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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Beauty, midnight, vision dies: Let the winds of dawn that blow Softly round your dreaming head Such a day of welcome show Eye and knocking heart may bless, Find our mortal world enough Noons of dryness find you fed By the involuntary powers, Nights of insult let you pass Watched by every human love.
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