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W. H. Auden Quotes
«Every high C accurately struck demolishes the theory that we are the irresponsible puppets of fate or chance»
Author: W. H. Auden
(Dramatist, Editor, Poet)
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«When I look back at the three or four choices in my life which have been decisive, I find that, at the time I made them, I had very little sense of the seriousness of what I was doing and only later did I discover what had seemed an unimportant brook»
«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»
«In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it: they must not do too much of it: and they must have a sense of success in it --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.»
«Christmas and Easter can be subjects for poetry, but Good Friday, like Auschwitz, cannot. The reality is so horrible, it is not surprising that people should have found it a stumbling block to faith.»