W. H. Auden - Man Quotes

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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 odourless.

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To save your world you asked this man to die:
Would this man, could he see you now, ask why?

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For the error bred in the bone
Of each woman and each man
Craves what it cannot have,
Not universal love
But to be loved alone.

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The test of good prose is that the reader does not notice it any more than a man looking through a window at a landscape notices the glass.

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The commonest ivory tower is that of the average man, the state of passivity towards experience.

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In the deserts of the heart
Let the healing fountain start,
In the prison of his days
Teach the free man how to praise.

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