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. Wystan Hugh Auden
 Poetry And Poets

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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. - Wystan Hugh Auden Quotes

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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 Children
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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 Age And Aging
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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 America
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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 America
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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 Autobiography
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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 Behavior
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
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