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W. H. Auden Quotes

English - Poet | February 21, 1907 - September 29, 1973

No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.

Good Music People Feeling Opera

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

Marriage Time Happy Unhappy Result

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

Man World Die You Now Why

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

Love Poetry Language Person Anything

History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.

History Questions Sociology Study

All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.

Addiction Point Terminal Sins Tend

Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

Opinion Friends Differences Taste

You owe it to all of us all get on with what you're good at.

Good You Us Get Owe

I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street.

Love Valentine's Day Mountain River

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.

Life Man Action Ignore Attention

It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.

Sad Art Culture Money Writing More

Now is the age of anxiety.

Age Time Anxiety Now

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