W. H. Auden Short Quotes

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Criticism should be a casual conversation.

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A shilling life will give you all the facts.

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August for the people and their favourite islands.

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Routine, in an intelligent man, is a sign of ambition.

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God bless the USA, so large, So friendly, and so rich.

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Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.

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My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.

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Out on the lawn I lie in bed,
Vega conspicuous overhead.

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You will be a poet because you will always be humiliated.

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Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.

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Hundreds may believe, but each has to believe by himself.

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Aphorisms are essentially an aristocratic genre of writing.

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Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.

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And children swarmed to him like settlers. He became a land.

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Money cannot buy
The fuel of Love
But is excellent kindling.

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The camera may do justice to laughter, but must degrade sorrow.

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Each in the cell of himself is almost convinced of his freedom.

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You shall love your crooked neighbour, with your crooked heart.

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In a brothel, both
The ladies and gentlemen
Have nicknames only.

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A dead man who never caused others to die seldom rates a statue.

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To us he is no more a person
now but a whole climate of opinion.

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It is a forest full of innocent beasts. It is America but not yet.

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Thou shalt not sit
With statisticians nor commit
A social science.

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Poetry might be defined as the clear expression of mixed feelings.

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To discover how to be human now is the reason we follow this star.

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See without looking, hear without listening, breathe without asking.

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Men will pay large sums to whores for telling them they are not bores.

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To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself.

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There is no love;
There are only the various envies, all of them sad.

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Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.

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