Tag: W.H. Auden
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“Evil is unspectacular and always human, And shares our bed and eats at our own table”
“We must love one another or die.”
“As a poet, there is only one political duty, and that is to defend one’s language from corruption.”
“There must always be two kinds of art: escape-art, for man needs escape as he needs food and deep sleep, and… “
“Good can imagine Evil but Evil cannot imagine Good.”
“A real book is not one that’s read, but one that reads us.”
“Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.”
British, English, poet, writer
“What the mass media offers is…intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.”
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