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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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Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation.
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The Americans are violently oral. That's why in America the mother is all-important and the father has no position at all -- isn't respected in the least. Even the American passion for laxatives can be explained as an oral manifestation. They want to get rid of any unpleasantness taken in through the mouth.
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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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Water is the soul of the Earth.
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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.
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We are all here on earth to help others.
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If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away.
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An honest self-portrait is extremely rare because a man who has reached the degree of self-consciousness presupposed by the desire to paint his own portrait has almost always also developed an ego-consciousness which paints himself painting himself, and introduces artificial highlights and dramatic shadows.
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The most difficult problem in personal knowledge, whether of oneself or of others, is the problem of guessing when to think as a historian and when to think as an anthropologist.
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Doom is dark and deeper than any sea-dingle.
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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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Private faces in public places Are wiser and nicer Than public faces in private places.
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Harrow the house of the dead look shining at New styles of architecture, a change of heart.
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A man has his distinctive personal scent which his wife, his children and his dog can recognize. A crowd has a generalized stink. The public is odorless.
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We all have these places where shy humiliations gambol on sunny afternoons.
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There was still gold and silver in the mountains, And hunger was a more immediate sorrow
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Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one.
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To my generation no other English poet seemed so perfectly to express the sensibility of a male adolescent. If I do not now turn to him very often, I am eternally grateful to him for the joy he gave me in my youth.
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Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
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Learn from your dreams what you lack.
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