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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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A dead man who never caused others to die seldom rates a statue.
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The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.
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a culture is no better than its woods
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There's always another story. There's more than meets the eye.
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We honor founders of these starving cities, Whose honor is the image of our sorrow.
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See without looking, hear without listening, breathe without asking.
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