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• W. H. Auden:

  For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?

• W. H. Auden:

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

• W. H. Auden:

  A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.

• W. H. Auden:

  Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a

• W. H. Auden:

  Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I

• W. H. Auden:

  Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.

• W. H. Auden:

  You owe it to all of us all get on with what you're good at.

• W. H. Auden:

  Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they

• W. H. Auden:

  A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich m

• W. H. Auden:

  Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want t