H. Auden Quotes

Nobody knows what the cause is, though some pretend they do it like some hidden assassin waiting to strike at you. Childless women get it, and men when they retire it as if there had to be some outlet for their foiled creative fire.

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You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared relation between two people.

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Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator but among those whom I love, I can all of them can make me laugh.

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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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Poetry makes nothing happen. It survives in the valley of its saying.

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It is already possible to imagine a society in which the majority of the population, that is to say, its laborers, will have almost as much leisure as in earlier times was enjoyed by the aristocracy. When one recalls how aristocracies in the past actually behaved, the prospect is not cheerful.

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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's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it. In England, one feels all the social restraints holding one back. But here, anything can happen.

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Private faces in public places Are wiser and nicer Than public faces in private places.

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But all the clocks in the city Began to whirr and chime'O let not Time deceive you, You cannot conquer Time.

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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.

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How happy the lot of the mathematician He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that no colleague or rival can ever win a reputation he does not deserve. No cashier writes a letter to the press complaining about the incomprehensibility of Modern Mathematics and comparing it unfavorably with the good old days when mathematicians were content to paper irregularly shaped rooms and fill bathtubs without closing the waste pipe.

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

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Our researchers into Public Opinion are content That he held the proper opinions for the time of year When there was peace, he was for peace when there was war, he went.

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In headaches and in worry Vaguely life leaks away,And Time will have his fancy To-morrow or to-day.

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In a land which is fully settled, most men must accept their local environment or try to change it by political means only the exceptionally gifted or adventurous can leave to seek his fortune elsewhere. In America, on the other hand, to move on and make a fresh start somewhere else is still the normal reaction to dissatisfaction and failure.

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Slavery is so intolerable a condition that the slave can hardly escape deluding himself into thinking that he is choosing to obey his master's commands when, in fact, he is obliged to. Most slaves of habit suffer from this delusion and so do some writers, enslaved by an all too ''personal'' style.

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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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The stars are dead the animals will not look We are left alone with our day, and the time is short and History to the defeated May say Alas but cannot help or pardon.

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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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Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.

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I cannot accept the doctrine that in poetry there is a ''suspension of belief.'' A poet must never make a statement simply because it is sounds poetically exciting he must also believe it to be true.

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For who can bear to feel himself forgotten

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A doctor, like anyone else who has to deal with human beings, each of them unique, cannot be a scientist he is either, like the surgeon, a craftsman, or, like the physician and the psychologist, an artist. This means that in order to be a good doctor a man must also have a good character, that is to say, whatever weaknesses and foibles he may have, he must love his fellow human beings in the concrete and desire their good before his own.

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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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