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W. H. Auden

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To choose what is difficult all one's days, as if it were easy, that is faith.
W. H. Auden
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To choose what is difficult all ones days, as if it were easy, that is faith.
W. H. Auden
Kehidupan
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Now is the age of anxiety.
W. H. Auden
Kehidupan
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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.
W. H. Auden
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'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'
W. H. Auden
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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.
W. H. Auden
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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.
W. H. Auden
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Art is born of humiliation.
W. H. Auden
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A verbal art like poetry is reflective it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.
W. H. Auden
Kehidupan
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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.
W. H. Auden
Kehidupan
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Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.
W. H. Auden
Kehidupan
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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.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.
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Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.
W. H. Auden
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Learn from your dreams what you lack.
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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.
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Kehidupan
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May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that 'faith' is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?
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Kehidupan
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Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.
W. H. Auden
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Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say.
W. H. Auden
Kehidupan