English - Poet | February 21, 1907 - September 29, 1973
A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.
W. H. Auden
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We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.
FunnyHelp OthersHelpEarthKnow
Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.
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Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.
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If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.
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'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'
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Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
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In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.
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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.
LoveMeLaughFindI CanAdmire
What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.
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Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy.
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When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes.
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