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One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell. - Wystan Hugh Auden Quotes

One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell.

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Hell

The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

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Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud. - Wystan Hugh Auden Quotes

Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.

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Fame

Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table. - Wystan Hugh Auden Quotes

Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.

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Evil

The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age. - Wystan Hugh Auden Quotes

The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

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God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich. - Wystan Hugh Auden Quotes

God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich.

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The Americans are violently oral. That's why in America the mother is all-important and the father has no position at all -- isn't respected in the least. Even the American passion for laxatives can be explained as an oral manifestation. They want to get rid of any unpleasantness taken in through the mouth. - Wystan Hugh Auden Quotes

The Americans are violently oral. That's why in America the mother is all-important and the father has no position at all -- isn't respected in the least. Even the American passion for laxatives can be explained as an oral manifestation. They want to get rid of any unpleasantness taken in through the mouth.

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Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self. - Wystan Hugh Auden Quotes

Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.

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Of course, behaviorism works. So does torture. Give me a no-nonsense, down-to-earth behaviorist, a few drugs, and simple electrical appliances, and in six months I will have him reciting the Athanasian Creed in public. - Wystan Hugh Auden Quotes

Of course, behaviorism works. So does torture. Give me a no-nonsense, down-to-earth behaviorist, a few drugs, and simple electrical appliances, and in six months I will have him reciting the Athanasian Creed in public.

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Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered. - Wystan Hugh Auden Quotes

Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.

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Books And Reading

Literary confessors are contemptible, like beggars who exhibit their sores for money, but not so contemptible as the public that buys their books. - Wystan Hugh Auden Quotes

Literary confessors are contemptible, like beggars who exhibit their sores for money, but not so contemptible as the public that buys their books.

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''Healing,'' Papa would tell me, ''is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'' - Wystan Hugh Auden Quotes

''Healing,'' Papa would tell me, ''is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.''

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All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work ''comes'' to him. - Wystan Hugh Auden Quotes

All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work ''comes'' to him.

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Creativity English Poet

Criticism should be a casual conversation. - Wystan Hugh Auden Quotes

Criticism should be a casual conversation.

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Critics And Criticism

The critical opinions of a writer should always be taken with a large grain of salt. For the most part, they are manifestations of his debate with himself as to what he should do next and what he should avoid. - Wystan Hugh Auden Quotes

The critical opinions of a writer should always be taken with a large grain of salt. For the most part, they are manifestations of his debate with himself as to what he should do next and what he should avoid.

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Critics And Criticism

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living. - Wystan Hugh Auden Quotes

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

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Death

No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games. - Wystan Hugh Auden Quotes

No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.

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Games

America has always been a country of amateurs where the professional, that is to say, the man who claims authority as a member of an Tlite which knows the law in some field or other, is an object of distrust and resentment. - Wystan Hugh Auden Quotes

America has always been a country of amateurs where the professional, that is to say, the man who claims authority as a member of an Tlite which knows the law in some field or other, is an object of distrust and resentment.

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The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition. - Wystan Hugh Auden Quotes

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

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Eyes

My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain. - Wystan Hugh Auden Quotes

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

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Faces

May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that ''faith'' is even more difficult for Him than it is for us? - Wystan Hugh Auden Quotes

May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that ''faith'' is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?

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Faith

Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality. - Wystan Hugh Auden Quotes

Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

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Friends Or Friendship Quote of the Day

''God is Love,'' we are taught as children to believe. But when we first begin to get some inkling of how He loves us, we are repelled; it seems so cold, indeed, not love at all as we understand the word. - Wystan Hugh Auden Quotes

''God is Love,'' we are taught as children to believe. But when we first begin to get some inkling of how He loves us, we are repelled; it seems so cold, indeed, not love at all as we understand the word.

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God

Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable. - Wystan Hugh Auden Quotes

Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable.

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To the man-in-the-street, who, I'm sorry to say, is a keen observer of life. The word ''Intellectual'' suggests straight away. A man who's untrue to his wife. - Wystan Hugh Auden Quotes

To the man-in-the-street, who, I'm sorry to say, is a keen observer of life. The word ''Intellectual'' suggests straight away. A man who's untrue to his wife.

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Intelligence And Intellectuals

What people don't realize is that intimacy has its conventions as well as ordinary social intercourse. There are three cardinal rules -- don't take somebody else's boyfriend unless you've been specifically invited to do so, don't take a drink without being asked, and keep a scrupulous accounting in financial matters. - Wystan Hugh Auden Quotes

What people don't realize is that intimacy has its conventions as well as ordinary social intercourse. There are three cardinal rules -- don't take somebody else's boyfriend unless you've been specifically invited to do so, don't take a drink without being asked, and keep a scrupulous accounting in financial matters.

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If the most significant characteristic of man is the complex of biological needs he shares with all members of his species, then the best lives for the writer to observe are those in which the role of natural necessity is clearest, namely, the lives of the very poor. - Wystan Hugh Auden Quotes

If the most significant characteristic of man is the complex of biological needs he shares with all members of his species, then the best lives for the writer to observe are those in which the role of natural necessity is clearest, namely, the lives of the very poor.

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A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime. - Wystan Hugh Auden Quotes

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

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Love Sad Break Up Love Sad Love

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our ''natural'' attitude toward the ''other'' is one of either indifference or hostility. - Wystan Hugh Auden Quotes

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our ''natural'' attitude toward the ''other'' is one of either indifference or hostility.

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Love

To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself. Whenever a man so concentrates his attention -- on a landscape, a poem, a geometrical problem, an idol, or the True God -- that he completely forgets his own ego and desires, he is praying. The primary task of the schoolteacher is to teach children, in a secular context, the technique of prayer. - Wystan Hugh Auden Quotes

To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself. Whenever a man so concentrates his attention -- on a landscape, a poem, a geometrical problem, an idol, or the True God -- that he completely forgets his own ego and desires, he is praying. The primary task of the schoolteacher is to teach children, in a secular context, the technique of prayer.

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Left to itself the masculine imagination has very little appreciation for the here and now; it prefers to dwell on what is absent, on what has been or may be. If men are more punctual than women, it is because they know that, without the external discipline of clock time, they would never get anything done. - Wystan Hugh Auden Quotes

Left to itself the masculine imagination has very little appreciation for the here and now; it prefers to dwell on what is absent, on what has been or may be. If men are more punctual than women, it is because they know that, without the external discipline of clock time, they would never get anything done.

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Men

The masculine imagination lives in a state of perpetual revolt against the limitations of human life. In theological terms, one might say that all men, left to themselves, become gnostics. They may swagger like peacocks, but in their heart of hearts they all think sex an indignity and wish they could beget themselves on themselves. Hence the aggressive hostility toward women so manifest in most club-car stories. - Wystan Hugh Auden Quotes

The masculine imagination lives in a state of perpetual revolt against the limitations of human life. In theological terms, one might say that all men, left to themselves, become gnostics. They may swagger like peacocks, but in their heart of hearts they all think sex an indignity and wish they could beget themselves on themselves. Hence the aggressive hostility toward women so manifest in most club-car stories.

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Men

The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind. - Wystan Hugh Auden Quotes

The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.

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Mind

The only way to spend New Year's Eve is either quietly with friends or in a brothel. Otherwise when the evening ends and people pair off, someone is bound to be left in tears. - Wystan Hugh Auden Quotes

The only way to spend New Year's Eve is either quietly with friends or in a brothel. Otherwise when the evening ends and people pair off, someone is bound to be left in tears.

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If music in general is an imitation of history, opera in particular is an imitation of human willfulness; it is rooted in the fact that we not only have feelings but insist upon having them at whatever cost to ourselves. The quality common to all the great operatic roles, e.g., Don Giovanni, Norma, Lucia, Tristan, Isolde, Brnnnhilde, is that each of them is a passionate and willful state of being. In real life they would all be bores, even Don Giovanni. - Wystan Hugh Auden Quotes

If music in general is an imitation of history, opera in particular is an imitation of human willfulness; it is rooted in the fact that we not only have feelings but insist upon having them at whatever cost to ourselves. The quality common to all the great operatic roles, e.g., Don Giovanni, Norma, Lucia, Tristan, Isolde, Brnnnhilde, is that each of them is a passionate and willful state of being. In real life they would all be bores, even Don Giovanni.

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Opera

As a poet there is only one political duty, and that is to defend one's language against corruption. When it is corrupted, people lose faith in what they hear and this leads to violence. - Wystan Hugh Auden Quotes

As a poet there is only one political duty, and that is to defend one's language against corruption. When it is corrupted, people lose faith in what they hear and this leads to violence.

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Poetry And Poets

It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it. - Wystan Hugh Auden Quotes

It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.

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Poetry And Poets

Rhymes, meters, stanza forms, etc., are like servants. If the master is fair enough to win their affection and firm enough to command their respect, the result is an orderly happy household. If he is too tyrannical, they give notice; if he lacks authority, they become slovenly, impertinent, drunk and dishonest. - Wystan Hugh Auden Quotes

Rhymes, meters, stanza forms, etc., are like servants. If the master is fair enough to win their affection and firm enough to command their respect, the result is an orderly happy household. If he is too tyrannical, they give notice; if he lacks authority, they become slovenly, impertinent, drunk and dishonest.

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Poetry And Poets

My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth. - Wystan Hugh Auden Quotes

My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth.

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Politicians And Politics

The belief that politics can be scientific must inevitably produce tyrannies. Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation. Empirical politics must be kept in bounds by democratic institutions, which leave it up to the subjects of the experiment to say whether it shall be tried, and to stop it if they dislike it, because, in politics, there is a distinction, unknown to science, between Truth and Justice. - Wystan Hugh Auden Quotes

The belief that politics can be scientific must inevitably produce tyrannies. Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation. Empirical politics must be kept in bounds by democratic institutions, which leave it up to the subjects of the experiment to say whether it shall be tried, and to stop it if they dislike it, because, in politics, there is a distinction, unknown to science, between Truth and Justice.

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Politicians And Politics

You have to see the sex act comically, as a child. - Wystan Hugh Auden Quotes

You have to see the sex act comically, as a child.

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Sex

There's only one good test of pornography. Get twelve normal men to read the book, and then ask them, ''Did you get an erection?'' If the answer is ''Yes'' from a majority of the twelve, then the book is pornographic. - Wystan Hugh Auden Quotes

There's only one good test of pornography. Get twelve normal men to read the book, and then ask them, ''Did you get an erection?'' If the answer is ''Yes'' from a majority of the twelve, then the book is pornographic.

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When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes. - Wystan Hugh Auden Quotes

When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes.

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Science And Scientists

It is... axiomatic that we should all think of ourselves as being more sensitive than other people because, when we are insensitive in our dealings with others, we cannot be aware of it at the time: conscious insensitivity is a self-contradiction. - Wystan Hugh Auden Quotes

It is... axiomatic that we should all think of ourselves as being more sensitive than other people because, when we are insensitive in our dealings with others, we cannot be aware of it at the time: conscious insensitivity is a self-contradiction.

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We are here on earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I don't know. - Wystan Hugh Auden Quotes

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

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All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation. - Wystan Hugh Auden Quotes

All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.

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Sin

A man has his distinctive personal scent which his wife, his children and his dog can recognize. A crowd has a generalized stink. The public is odorless. - Wystan Hugh Auden Quotes

A man has his distinctive personal scent which his wife, his children and his dog can recognize. A crowd has a generalized stink. The public is odorless.

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Precisely because we do not communicate by singing, a song can be out of place but not out of character; it is just as credible that a stupid person should sing beautifully as that a clever person should do so. - Wystan Hugh Auden Quotes

Precisely because we do not communicate by singing, a song can be out of place but not out of character; it is just as credible that a stupid person should sing beautifully as that a clever person should do so.

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Song And Singing

It takes little talent to see clearly what lies under one's nose, a good deal of it to know in which direction to point that organ. - Wystan Hugh Auden Quotes

It takes little talent to see clearly what lies under one's nose, a good deal of it to know in which direction to point that organ.

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Drama is based on the Mistake. I think someone is my friend when he really is my enemy, that I am free to marry a woman when in fact she is my mother, that this person is a chambermaid when it is a young nobleman in disguise, that this well-dressed young man is rich when he is really a penniless adventurer, or that if I do this such and such a result will follow when in fact it results in something very different. All good drama has two movements, first the making of the mistake, then the discovery that it was a mistake. - Wystan Hugh Auden Quotes

Drama is based on the Mistake. I think someone is my friend when he really is my enemy, that I am free to marry a woman when in fact she is my mother, that this person is a chambermaid when it is a young nobleman in disguise, that this well-dressed young man is rich when he is really a penniless adventurer, or that if I do this such and such a result will follow when in fact it results in something very different. All good drama has two movements, first the making of the mistake, then the discovery that it was a mistake.

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