Quotes about W. H. Auden

No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most...

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No hero is mortal till he dies.

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

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My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.

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Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.

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Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession.

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Men will pay large sums to whores for telling them they are not bores.

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Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of...

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It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too...

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