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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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You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared relation between two people.
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There is a great deal of difference in believing something still, and believing it again.
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The definition of prayer is paying careful and concentrated attention to something other than your own constructions.
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Good can imagine Evil but Evil cannot imagine Good.
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Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy.
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Acts of injustice done Between the setting and the rising sun In history lie like bones, each one.
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Man desires to be free and he desires to feel important. This places him in a dilemma, for the more he emancipates himself from necessity the less important he feels.
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A poet feels the impulse to create a work of art when the passive awe provoked by an event is transformed into a desire to express that awe in a rite of worship.
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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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Lovers have lived so long with giants and elves, they won't believe again in their own size.
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What is a Professor of Poetry? How can poetry be professed?
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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.
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In a game, just losing is almost as satisfying as just winning... In life the loser's score is always zero.
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If we really want to live, we'd better start at once to try.
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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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A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb.
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Hunger allows no choice.
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If age, which is certainly Just as wicked as youth, look any wiser, It is only that youth is still able to believe It will get away with anything, while age Knows only too well that it has got away with nothing.
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Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist.
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The lights must never go out, The music must always play
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