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A man is a form of life that dreams in order to act and acts in order to dream.
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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To ask the hard question is simple.
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Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
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Drama began as the act of a whole community. Ideally, there would be no speculators. In practice, every member of the audience should feel like an understudy.
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Of course,Behaviourism 'works'. So does torture.
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I said earlier that I do not believe an artist's life throws much light upon his works. I do believe, however, that, more often than most people realize, his works may throw light upon his life. An artist with certain imaginative ideas in his head may then involve himself in relationships which are congenial to them.
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The closest modern equivalent to the Homeric hero is the ace fighter pilot.
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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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Encased in talent like a uniform, The rank of every poet is well known They can amaze us like a thunderstorm, Or die so young, or live for years alone.
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O plunge your hands in water, Plunge them in up to the wrist Stare, stare in the basin And wonder what you've missed.
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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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A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.
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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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Out on the lawn I lie in bed, Vega conspicuous overhead.
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What is a Professor of Poetry? How can poetry be professed?
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The nightingales are sobbing in The orchards of our mothers, And hearts that we broke long ago Have long been breaking others Tears are round, the sea is deep: Roll them overboard and sleep.
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It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
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The commonest ivory tower is that of the average man, the state of passivity towards experience.
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