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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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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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Does God judge us by appearances? I Suspect that He does.
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Over the tea-cups and in the square the tongue has its desire Still waters run deep, my dear, there's never smoke without fire.
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It's usually the stupid people that develop long illnesses. You need more than indolence and selfishness, you need endurance to make a good patient.
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One cannot review a bad book without showing off.
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All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.
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Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy.
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Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist.
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Be subtle, various, ornamental, clever, And do not listen to those critics ever Whose crude provincial gullets crave in books Plain cooking made still plainer by plain cooks.
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Let me see what I wrote so I know what I think
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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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Thank God for books as an alternative to conversation.
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Let all your thinks be thanks.
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The most exciting rhythms seem unexpected and complex, the most beautiful melodies simple and inevitable.
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The condition of mankind is, and always has been, so miserable and depraved that, if anyone were to say to the poet: For God's sake stop singing and do something useful like putting on the kettle or fetching bandages, what just reason could he give for refusing?
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