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W. H. Auden
W. H. Auden
English Poet
Born: Feb 21, 1907
Died: Sep 29, 1973
Art Good Man People Poet You
Related authors: Alexander Pope Alfred Lord Tennyson John Keats John Milton Percy Bysshe Shelley Robert Browning William Blake William Wordsworth
All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation. W. H. Auden
Addiction Addictive Tend Point Terminal Sins
A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep. W. H. Auden
Else Someone Talks Who Professor Sleep
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. W. H. Auden
Love Me Those Laugh Find Admire Like Make Make Me Laugh Denominator Common Common Denominator Them Whom Among
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. W. H. Auden
Love You Valentines Day Meet River Over Sing Till Dear Salmon Jumps Mountain Africa Love You China Street
'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.' W. H. Auden
Art Nature Me Science Healing Papa Tell Would Intuitive Wooing
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. W. H. Auden
Art Food Entertainment Consumed Mass New Mass Media Like Replaced Offers Intended Forgotten Dish Which Popular Media
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. W. H. Auden
Life Man Whatever Pay Pay Attention Action Consequences Responsible Must Outer Cases Both Attention Accept His May Choice Ignore Inner Inner Life
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. W. H. Auden
Love Language Poet Before Else Poetry Passionately Person Anything Anything Else Who
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. W. H. Auden
Other Eye Bored Impatient Tends Lazy Hand Repetition Familiar Shocked Unexpected Craves Novel Ear
In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag. W. H. Auden
Happiness Joy Possessed Tail Could Wished Wag Times Us
Music is the best means we have of digesting time. W. H. Auden
Music Time Best Means
Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods. W. H. Auden
Relationship Exploitation Relationships Our Out Run Physical Mutual Mental Both Both Parties Almost Almost All Goods Terminated Most Parties Continue Begin Forms Them Barter
Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell. W. H. Auden
Music Made Smell Invisible Does Anywhere
May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that 'faith' is even more difficult for Him than it is for us? W. H. Auden
God Faith History Difficult Considering More Him Than May Human Just The History Of Race Far Us Human Race Even
All that we are not stares back at what we are. W. H. Auden
Back
Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality. W. H. Auden
Differences Direct Triviality Proportion Between Opinion Friends Taste Irritating
A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become. W. H. Auden
Music Art Become Think Immediate Poetry Like Verbal Reflective Goes Stops
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. W. H. Auden
Time Happy Marriage Result Unhappy Will Creation Everything More Emotion Like Involuntary Passionate However Than Infinitely Any Romance Which Interesting Fleeting
Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession. W. H. Auden
Other Members Than Any Commoner Cooks Profession Among
No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and quite a number fondly believe their wish has been granted. W. H. Auden
Poet Wish Believe Alive Has-Been Fondly Only He Wishes Most Were Been Quite Them Granted Who Novelist Lived Ever Number
Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self. W. H. Auden
Ego Every Characters Self Concerned Don Quixote Autobiography Quixote Two
No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games. W. H. Auden
Class Human Being Innocent Human Human Actions Being Games Actions
The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind. W. H. Auden
Mind Find Unconscious Unconscious Mind Known Cannot Center
Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy. W. H. Auden
You Happy World Spin Remote Mist Heavy Sob
No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible. W. H. Auden
Music Good People Feeling Plot Opera Sing Sensible
It is 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. W. H. Auden
Sad Art Culture Writing Money Poet Earn Our About More Fact He Sad Fact Talking Practicing His Than Much
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