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Quotes by W.H. Auden

The older lives like not to be stood in rows or at right angles.

W.H. Auden (1907 - 1973)
Source: "Ode to Gaea"
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Acts of injustice done
Between the setting and the rising sun
In history lie like bones, each one.

W.H. Auden (1907 - 1973)
Source: The Ascent of F.6
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All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is what is called damnation.

W.H. Auden (1907 - 1973)
 
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Geniuses are the luckiest mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.

W.H. Auden (1907 - 1973)
 
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A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gourmets, some gourmands, and a good many take their images precooked out of a can and swallow them down whole, absent-mindedly and with little relish.

W.H. Auden (1907 - 1973)
 
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All that we are not stares back at what we are.

W.H. Auden (1907 - 1973)
 
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You owe it to us all to get on with what you're good at.

W.H. Auden (1907 - 1973)
 
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Every high C accurately struck demolishes the theory that we are the irresponsible puppets of fate or chance.

W.H. Auden (1907 - 1973)
 
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A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep.

W.H. Auden (1907 - 1973)
 
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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 (1907 - 1973)
 
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