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In a land which is fully settled, most men must accept their local environment or try to change it by political means; only the exceptionally gifted or adventurous can leave to seek his fortune elsewhere. In America, on the other hand, to move on and make a fresh start somewhere else is still the normal reaction to dissatisfaction and failure. - H. Auden Quotes

In a land which is fully settled, most men must accept their local environment or try to change it by political means; only the exceptionally gifted or adventurous can leave to seek his fortune elsewhere. In America, on the other hand, to move on and make a fresh start somewhere else is still the normal reaction to dissatisfaction and failure.

Dissatisfaction

The nightingales are sobbing in / The orchards of our mothers, / And hearts that we broke long ago / Have long been breaking others. - H. Auden Quotes

The nightingales are sobbing in / The orchards of our mothers, / And hearts that we broke long ago / Have long been breaking others.

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods. - H. Auden Quotes

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and Sunday rest, My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song; I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong. - H. Auden Quotes

He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and Sunday rest, My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song; I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong.

A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gourmets, some gourmands, and a good many take their images precooked out of a can and swallow them down whole, absent-mindedly and with little relish. - H. Auden Quotes

A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gourmets, some gourmands, and a good many take their images precooked out of a can and swallow them down whole, absent-mindedly and with little relish.

No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible. - H. Auden Quotes

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

Opera

Men will pay large sums to whores for telling them they are not bores - H. Auden Quotes

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

All sin tends to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is what is called damnation - H. Auden Quotes

All sin tends to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is what is called damnation

Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another - H. Auden Quotes

Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another

Ask

Private faces in public places / Are wiser and nicer / Than public faces in private places. - H. Auden Quotes

Private faces in public places / Are wiser and nicer / Than public faces in private places.

Faces

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