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W. H. Auden Quotes

«Precisely because we do not communicate by singing, a song can be out of place but not out of character; it is just as credible that a stupid person should sing beautifully as that a clever person should do so.»
«America has always been a country of amateurs where the professional, that is to say, the man who claims authority as a member of an -lite which knows the law in some field or other, is an object of distrust and resentment.»
«Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.»
«My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.»
Author: W. H. Auden (Dramatist, Editor, Poet) | Keywords: wedding cake
«Slavery is so intolerable a condition that the slave can hardly escape deluding himself into thinking that he is choosing to obey his master's commands when, in fact, he is obliged to. Most slaves of habit suffer from this delusion and so do some writers, enslaved by an all too ''personal'' style.»
«Lay your sleeping head, my love, / Human on my faithless arm.»
«Their fate must always be the same as yours, / To suffer the loss they were afraid of, yes, / Holders of one position, wrong for years.»
Author: W. H. Auden (Dramatist, Editor, Poet) | Keywords: holder, Holders
«Alone, alone, about the dreadful wood / Of conscious evil runs a lost mankind, / Dreading to find its Father.»
Author: W. H. Auden (Dramatist, Editor, Poet) | Keywords: dreading
«Embrace me, belly, like a bride.»
«His truth acceptable to lying men.»