Wystan Hugh Auden, known more commonly as W. H. Auden was an English poet, often considered one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century. He was one of the greatest Anglo American poets. Born in England, he later obtained an American citizenship.
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A poet's hope to be, like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere. Go to Quote / Comment
To the man-in-the-street, who, I'm sorry to say, is a keen observer of life. The word Intellectual suggests straight away. A man who's untrue to his wife. Go to Quote / Comment
The habit-forming pain, Mismanagement and grief: We must suffer them all again. Go to Quote / Comment
One cannot review a bad book without showing off. Go to Quote / Comment
The Americans are violently oral. That's why in America the mother is all-important and the father has no position at all -- isn't respected in the least. Even the American passion for laxatives can be explained as an oral manifestation. They want to get rid of any unpleasantness taken in through the mouth. Go to Quote / Comment