Author: W. H. Auden

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Art is born of humiliation.

Art is born of humiliation.

- W. H. Auden

God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich.

God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich.

- 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.

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

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

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

- W. H. Auden

History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.

History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.

- W. H. Auden

I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street.

I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street.

- W. H. Auden

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

- W. H. Auden

Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.

Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.

- 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.

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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