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Sighs for folly said and done
Twist our narrow days;
(W.H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden (1907-1973), Anglo-American poet, essayist. Fish in the unruffled lakes (l. 19-20). . .
Juvenilia; Poems, 1922-1928 [W. H. Auden]. Katherine Bucknell, ed. (1994) Princeton University Press.)
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Faces along the bar
Cling to their average day:
The lights must never go out,
The music must always play,
(W.H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden (1907-1973), Anglo-American poet, essayist. September 1, 1939 (l. 45-48). . .
Oxford Book of American Verse, The. F. O. Matthiessen, ed. (1950) Oxford University Press.)
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Dogmatic theological statements are neither logical propositions nor poetic utterances. They are "shaggy dog" stories; they have a point, but he who tries too hard to get it will miss it.
(W.H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden (1907-1973), Anglo-American poet. "God," A Certain World (1970).)
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"God is Love," we are taught as children to believe. But when we first begin to get some inkling of how He loves us, we are repelled; it seems so cold, indeed, not love at all as we understand the word.
(W.H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden (1907-1973), Anglo-U.S. poet. "God," A Certain World (1970).)
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A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gourmets, some gourmands, and a good many take their images precooked out of a can and swallow them down whole, absent-mindedly and with little relish.
(W.H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden (1907-1973), Anglo-American poet. "Hic et Ille," pt. 3, sct. C, The Dyer's Hand (1962).)
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Evil is unspectacular and always human,
And shares our bed and eats at our own table.
(W.H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden (1907-1973), Anglo-American poet. Herman Melville, st. 4.)
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History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.
(W.H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden (1907-1973), Anglo-American poet. "Hic et Ille," pt. 3, sect. B, The Dyer's Hand (1962).)
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