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Yet no one hears his own remarks as prose.
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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No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
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Sincerity is technique.
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Without Art, we should have no notion of the sacred without Science, we should always worship false gods.
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Nobody knows what the cause is, though some pretend they do it like some hidden assassin waiting to strike at you. Childless women get it, and men when they retire it as if there had to be some outlet for their foiled creative fire.
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Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.
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Nobody is ever sent to Hell: he or she insists on going there.
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We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.
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A poem is a verbal artifact which must be as skillfully and solidly constructed as a table or a motorcycle.
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Poetry is the only art people haven't learned to consume like soup.
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What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.
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All I have is a voice.
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Each in the cell of himself is almost convinced of his freedom.
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Men will pay large sums to whores for telling them they are not bores.
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The eye likes novelty, but the ear craves familiarity.
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All poets adore explosions, thunderstorms, tornadoes, conflagrations, ruins, scenes of spectacular carnage. The poetic imagination is not at all a desirable quality in a statesman.
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What living occasion can, Be just to the absent?
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