W.H. Auden Quotes
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A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
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No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
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When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.
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What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.
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When the Sex War ended with the slaughter of the Grandmothers, / They found a bachelor`s baby suffocating under them; / Somebody called him George and that was the end of it: / They hitched him up to the Army.
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| Name | W.H. Auden |
| Date of Birth | February 21, 1907 |
| Star Sign | Pisces |
| Died | September 29, 1973 (Aged 66) |
| Occupation | Writer |
