W. H. Auden Quotes - Page 18

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• I sit in one of the dives
  On Fifty-second Street
  Uncertain and afraid
  As the clever hopes expire
  Of a low dishonest decade

  W. H. Auden

  Hope, Clever, Fear

  "September 1, 1939" l. 1 (1939)

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• If it form the one landscape that we the inconstant ones
  Are consistently homesick for, this is chiefly
  Because it dissolves in water.

  W. H. Auden

  Afterlife, Water, Landscape

  W.H. Auden (2016). “Canción de cuna y otros poemas”, p.257, DEBOLS!LLO

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• There was still gold and silver in the mountains,
  And hunger was a more immediate sorrow

  W. H. Auden

  Sorrow, Gold, Mountain

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• Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy.

  W. H. Auden

  Grieving, Fog, World

  Age of Anxiety (1947) p. 104

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• The surest sign that a man has a genuine taste of his own is that he is uncertain of it.

  W. H. Auden

  Men, Taste, Genuine

  "The Dyer's Hand, and Other Essays" by W. H. Auden, ("Reading"), (p. 6), 1962.

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• But he would have us most of all remember to be enthusiastic over the night. Not only for the sense of wonder it alone has to offer but also because it needs our love. For with sad eyes its delectable creatures look up and beg us dumbly to ask them to follow. They are exiles who long for a future that lies in our power.

  W. H. Auden

  Dream, Lying, Eye

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• Doom is dark and deeper than any sea-dingle.

  W. H. Auden

  Fate, Dark, Sea

  W.H. Auden (2016). “Canción de cuna y otros poemas”, p.46, DEBOLS!LLO

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