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W. H. Auden

W. H. Auden

Wystan Hugh Auden (; 21 February 1907 – 29 September 1973), who published as W. H. Auden, was an Anglo-American poet,

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Now is the age of anxiety.

Tags: Women, Young, Social
W. H. Auden

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.

Tags: Time, Tried, Rage
W. H. Auden

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.

Tags: Believe, True, Cannot
W. H. Auden

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

Tags: Feeling
W. H. Auden

What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.

Tags: Music, Success, Different
W. H. Auden

Art is born of humiliation.

Tags: Education, Freedom, Few
W. H. Auden

A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

Tags: History, Special, Away
W. H. Auden

It's 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.

Tags: Science, May, Ideas
W. H. Auden

Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.

Tags: Great, Technology, Treat
W. H. Auden

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.

Tags: Great, Men, Him
W. H. Auden

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