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Adjectives are the potbelly of poetry.
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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What we have not named as a symbol escapes our notice.
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There was still gold and silver in the mountains, And hunger was a more immediate sorrow
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Money is the necessity that frees us from necessity.
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O let not Time deceive you, You cannot conquer Time.
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Follow, poet, follow right To the bottom of the night, With your unconstraining voice Still persuade us to rejoice With the farming of a verse Make a vineyard of the curse, Sing of human unsuccess In a rapture of distress In the deserts of the heart Let the healing fountain start, In the prison of his days Teach the free man how to praise.
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It's better to say, 'I'm suffering,' than to say, 'This landscape is ugly.
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For time is inches And the heart's changes, Where ghost has haunted Lost and wanted.
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Poetry makes nothing happen.
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Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.
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The camera may do justice to laughter, but must degrade sorrow.
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One can only blaspheme if one believes.
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We do not change as we grow up. The difference between the child and the adult is that the former doesn't know who he is and the latter does.
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Long ago the accusations had begun, And suddenly knew by whom it had been judged
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the child unlucky in his little State, Some hearth where freedom is excluded, A hive whose honey is fear and worry, Feels calmer now and somehow assured of escape
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We who must die demand a miracle. How could the Eternal do a temporal act, The Infinite become a finite fact? Nothing can save us that is possible: We who must die demand a miracle.
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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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So long as we think of it objectively, time is Fate or Chance, the factor in our lives for which we are not responsible, and about which we can do nothing but when we begin to think of it subjectively, we feel responsible for our time, and the notion of punctuality arises.
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