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money W.H. Auden

W. H. Auden | money

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.

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money W.H. Auden

W. H. Auden | money

It is 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.

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marriage W.H. Auden

W. H. Auden | marriage

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

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Love W.H. Auden

W. H. Auden | love

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

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Love W.H. Auden

W. H. Auden | love

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.

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Love W.H. Auden

W. H. Auden | love

I’ll love you, dear, I’ll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street.

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Life W.H. Auden

W. H. Auden | life

Choice of attention – to pay attention to this and ignore that – is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.

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history W.H. Auden

W. H. Auden | history

May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that ‘faith’ is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?

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history W.H. Auden

W. H. Auden | history

History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.

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health W.H. Auden

W. H. Auden | health

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

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