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Does God judge us by appearances? I Suspect that He does.
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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Christmas and Easter can be subjects for poetry, but Good Friday, like Auschwitz, cannot. The reality is so horrible it is not surprising that people should have found it a stumbling block to faith.
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As a poet, there is only one political duty, and that is to defend one's language from corruption.
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No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
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Now is the age of anxiety.
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It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it. In England, one feels all the social restraints holding one back. But here, anything can happen.
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Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable.
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Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible.
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If the most significant characteristic of man is the complex of biological needs he shares with all members of his species, then the best lives for the writer to observe are those in which the role of natural necessity is clearest, namely, the lives of the very poor.
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Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.
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All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.
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Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.
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