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A shilling life will give you all the facts:
How Father beat him, how he ran away,
What were the struggles of his youth, what acts
Made him the greatest figure of his day;... - Voltaire At Ferney
Almost happy now, he looked at his estate.
An exile making watches glanced up as he passed,
And went on working; where a hospital was rising fast
A joiner touched his cap; an agent came to tell... - Three Short Poems
“The underground roads
Are, as the dead prefer them,
Always tortuous.”
... - The Unknown Citizen
(To JS/07/M/378/ This Marble Monument
Is Erected by the State)
He was found by the Bureau of Statistics to be... - The Two
You are the town and we are the clock.
We are the guardians of the gate in the rock.
The Two.
On your left and on your right...
Top 10 most used topics by W. H. Auden
Away 11 Never 10 I Love You 10 Love 10 Night 9 Time 8 World 8 Sky 8 Life 7 Children 7W. H. Auden Quotes
- 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.
- Acts of injustice done, Between the setting and the rising sun, In history lie like bones, each one.
- 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.
- 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.
- Accurate scholarship can unearth the whole offence from luther untill noe that has driven a culture mad. From what occured at linz what huge imago made a psychopathic god. i and the public know what all schoolchildren learn those to whom evil is done do evil in return.
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Kateheartfield: "i was very pleased to hear from you, and glad to feel that you were not bored." -- to w.h. auden, june 7, 1955
Ecowaterjax: "thousands have lived without love, not one without water." -w. h. auden
Louwmartin8: if equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me. —w.h. auden
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