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W. H. Auden
February 21, 1907 - September 29, 1973
Nationality: English
Category: Poet
Subcategory: English Poet

"Healing," Papa would tell me, "is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature."

   

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.

   

Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.

   

When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.

   

Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one.

   

Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say.

   

Learn from your dreams what you lack.

   

A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

   

The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

   

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.

   

For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?

   

Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

   

We all have these places where shy humiliations gambol on sunny afternoons.

   

A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.

   

I don't get acting jobs because of my looks.

   

If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.

   

You owe it to us all to get on with what you're good at.

   

Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.

   

Now is the age of anxiety.

   

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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