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Quotes by W H Auden
- A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.
- A verbal art like poetry is reflective it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.
- 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.
- 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.
- Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
- Art is born of humiliation.
- Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.
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