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Caesar's double-bed is warm As an unimportant clerk Writes i do not like my work On a pink official form.
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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Let me see what I wrote so I know what I think
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To be happy means to be free, not from pain or fear, but from care or anxiety.
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The trees encountered on a country stroll Reveal a lot about that country's soul ... A culture is no better than its woods.
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