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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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Cathedrals, luxury liners laden with souls, Holding to the east their hulls of stone.
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Let all your thinks be thanks.
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The desires of the heart are as crooked as corkscrews Not to be born is the best for man The second best is a formal order The dance's pattern, dance while you can. Dance, dance, for the figure is easy The tune is catching and will not stop Dance till the stars come down from the rafters Dance, dance, dance till you drop.
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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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The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.
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It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.
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The windiest militant trash Important Persons shout Is not so crude as our wish: What mad Nijinsky wrote About Diaghilev Is true of the normal heart For the error bred in the bone Of each woman and each man Craves what it cannot have Not universal love But to be loved alone.
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Now is the age of anxiety.
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There is no such thing as the State And no one exists alone Hunger allows no choice To the citizen or the police We must love one another or die.
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Great art is clear thinking about mixed feelings.
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What is a Professor of Poetry? How can poetry be professed?
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All pity is self-pity.
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Oh, how I wish that Orwell were still alive, so that I could read his comments on contemporary events!
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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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