English - Poet | February 21, 1907 - September 29, 1973
The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.
W. H. Auden
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We all have these places where shy humiliations gambol on sunny afternoons.
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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.
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Learn from your dreams what you lack.
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For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?
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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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No hero is mortal till he dies.
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Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.
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Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession.
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Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another.
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Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.
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