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W H Auden Facts
W H Auden Is Born On February 21, 1907
W H Auden Is Born In York, United Kingdom
W H Auden Nationality Is British
W H Auden Zodiac Sign Is Pisces
W H Auden Zodiac Symbol Is Fish
W H Auden Chinese Zodiac Element Is Yin Fire
W H Auden Chinese Zodiac Animal Is Sheep
W H Auden Occupation Is Poet
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Healing, Papa would tell me, is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature. - W H Auden Quotes
A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb. - W H Auden Quotes
A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects. - W H Auden Quotes
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. - W H Auden Quotes
A poets hope: to be, like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere. - W H Auden Quotes
A professor is one who talks in someone elses sleep. - W H Auden Quotes
A professor is someone who talks in someone elses sleep. - W H Auden Quotes
A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us. - W H Auden Quotes
A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he cant think of anything else to do. - W H Auden Quotes
A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become. - W H Auden Quotes
All sin tends to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is what is called damnation. - W H Auden Quotes
All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation. - W H Auden Quotes
All that we are not stares back at what we are. - W H Auden Quotes
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him. - W H Auden Quotes
Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods. - W H Auden Quotes
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh. - W H Auden Quotes
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator; but among those whom I love, I can: all of them can make me laugh. - W H Auden Quotes
Art is born of humiliation. - W H Auden Quotes
Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead. - W H Auden Quotes
Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another. - W H Auden Quotes
Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality. - W H Auden Quotes
Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be. - W H Auden Quotes
Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic. - W H Auden Quotes
Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one. - W H Auden Quotes
Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self. - W H Auden Quotes
Evil is unspectacular and always human, And shares our bed and eats at our own table. - W H Auden Quotes
Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table. - W H Auden Quotes
False enchantment can last a lifetime. - W H Auden Quotes
Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud. - W H Auden Quotes
For who can bear to feel himself forgotten? - W H Auden Quotes
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