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What is a Professor of Poetry? How can poetry be professed?
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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A man has his distinctive personal scent which his wife, his children and his dog can recognize. A crowd has a generalized stink. The public is odorless.
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In addition to English, at least one ancient language, probably Greek or Hebrew, and two modern languages would be required.
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Few can remember clearly when innocence came to a sudden end, the moment at which we ask for the first time: Am I loved?
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I and the public know What all schoolchildren learn, Those to whom evil is done Do evil in return.
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Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.
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Whatever you do, good or bad, people will always have something negative to say
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Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone. Silence the pianos and with muffled drum Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.
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In the end, art is small beer. The really serious things are earning one's living so as not to be a parasite and loving one's neighbor.
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Recipe for the upbringing of a poet: 'As much neurosis as the child can bear.
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No person can be a great leader unless he takes genuine joy in the successes of those under him.
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Look if you like, but you will have to leap.
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There is a certain kind of person who is so dominated by the desire to be loved for himself alone that he has constantly to test those around him by tiresome behavior what he says and does must be admired, not because it is intrinsically admirable, but because it is his remark, his act. Does not this explain a good deal of avant-garde art?
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To discover how to be human now is the reason we follow this star.
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In a land which is fully settled, most men must accept their local environment or try to change it by political means only the exceptionally gifted or adventurous can leave to seek his fortune elsewhere. In America, on the other hand, to move on and make a fresh start somewhere else is still the normal reaction to dissatisfaction and failure.
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