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W. H. Auden

Top 10 W. H. Auden Quotes,  English
Total Quotes : 26
Death Sound Distant

Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.

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Love Valentine's Day Over

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.

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Love Poetry Before

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

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Bed Always Shares

Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.

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Love Admire Like

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.

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Relationship Almost All

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.

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Office Very Anything Else

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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Teacher Sleep Professor

A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.

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Addiction Addictive Tend

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

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Cardinal We Cannot Out

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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Study Strictly Speaking

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

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Good Get Owe

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

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Love Loving Equal

If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.

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Gun Opera Away

If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away.

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Which Consumed Offers

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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Funny Help Here

We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.

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Happiness Joy Times

In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.

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Dreams Learn Your

Learn from your dreams what you lack.

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Happen Still Apt

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.

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Book Read Reads

A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.

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