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A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.
[ Love ]
W. H. Auden

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A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep.
[ Teachers and Teaching ]
W. H. Auden

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A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.
[ Books - Reading ]
W. H. Auden

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A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.
[ Music ]
W. H. Auden

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All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.
[ Sin ]
W. H. Auden

Quotes by W. H. Auden Biography of W. H. Auden Quotation 29516

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Criticism should be a casual conversation.
[ Critics and Criticism ]
W. H. Auden

Quotes by W. H. Auden Biography of W. H. Auden Quotation 42292

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Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
[ Evil ]
W. H. Auden

Quotes by W. H. Auden Biography of W. H. Auden Quotation 3717

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Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.
[ Fame ]
W. H. Auden

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God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich.
[ America ]
W. H. Auden

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Healing, Papa would tell me, is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.
[ Convalescence ]
W. H. Auden

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My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.
[ Faces ]
W. H. Auden

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No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
[ Opera ]
W. H. Auden

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No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.
[ Games ]
W. H. Auden

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One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell.
[ Hell ]
W. H. Auden

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Poetry makes nothing happen. It survives in the valley of its saying.
[ Poetry and Poets ]
W. H. Auden

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Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable.
[ Names ]
W. H. Auden

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Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
[ Books - Reading ]
W. H. Auden

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The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.
[ Mind ]
W. H. Auden

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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.
[ Death and Dying ]
W. H. Auden

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We are here on earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I don't know.
[ Service ]
W. H. Auden

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We must love one another or die.
[ Love ]
W. H. Auden

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You have to see the sex act comically, as a child.
[ Sex ]
W. H. Auden

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You must go to bed with friends or whores, where money makes up the difference in beauty or desire.
[ Relationships ]
W. H. Auden

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