Art is born of humiliation.

About W. H. Auden

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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 tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office every day. Not because he likes it, but because he can't think of anything else to do.

No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.

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

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We are here on earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I don't know.

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I will love You forever," swears the poet. I find this easy to swear too. I will love You at 4:15 pm next Tuesday: is that still as easy?

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