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.

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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Art is born of humiliation.

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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Beware of too much laughter, for it deadens the mind and produces oblivion.

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

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Laughter is inner jogging.

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You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.

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He who laughs, lasts!

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