W. H. Auden Quotes - Page 18

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• the child unlucky in his little State,
  Some hearth where freedom is excluded,
  A hive whose honey is fear and worry,
  Feels calmer now and somehow assured of escape

  W. H. Auden

  Children, Fear, Worry

  W. H. Auden, “In Memory Of Sigmund Freud”

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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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• 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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• 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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• In headaches and in worry
  Vaguely life leaks away,
  And Time will have his fancy
  To-morrow or today.

  W. H. Auden

  Worry, Fancy, Today

  W.H. Auden (2016). “Canción de cuna y otros poemas”, p.75, DEBOLS!LLO

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• Composing mortals with immortal fire.

  W. H. Auden

  Fire, Immortal, Composing

  'Three Songs for St Cecilia's Day' (1941)

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