About W. H. Auden
Wystan Hugh Auden ( WIST-ən HYOO AWD-ən; 21 February 1907 – 29 September 1973) was a British-American poet. Auden's poetry is noted for its stylistic and technical achievement, its engagement with politics, morals, love, and religion, and its variety in tone, form, and content. Some of his best known poems...
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A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
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Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.
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Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back, and, instead of bleeding, he sings.