English - Poet | February 21, 1907 - September 29, 1973
God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich.
W. H. Auden
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Art is born of humiliation.
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Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.
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All that we are not stares back at what we are.
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In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a unique perspective on the world, a member of a class of one.
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Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one.
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The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.
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Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
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In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they like, but he must never, never be unfaithful to them.
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It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.
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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.
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Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.
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