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W. H. Auden
English
February 21, 1907
Poet
Art is born of humiliation.
W. H. Auden
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Art
Born
Humiliation
Now is the age of anxiety.
W. H. Auden
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Age
Now
Anxiety
All that we are not stares back at what we are.
W. H. Auden
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Back
For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?
W. H. Auden
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Who
Feel
Himself
Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
W. H. Auden
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Some
Books
None
Learn from your dreams what you lack.
W. H. Auden
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Dreams
You
Your
Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.
W. H. Auden
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Love
Without
Lived
Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.
W. H. Auden
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Death
Sound
Distant
If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.
W. H. Auden
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Me
More
Cannot
We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.
W. H. Auden
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Know
Here
Help
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
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Food
Like
Which
It's 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
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Money
Sad
About
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
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Me
Like
Them
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.
W. H. Auden
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Society
Forgiveness
Which
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him.
W. H. Auden
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Good
Work
Will
