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Famous W. H. Auden Quotes
“No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.”
“Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.”
“Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say.”
“Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.”
Source: Canción de cuna y otros poemas
“The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.”
Source: Canción de cuna y otros poemas
“Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.”
“Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession.”
“Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy.”
“The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.”
“The poet marries the language, and out of this marriage the poem is born.”
Source: Canción de cuna y otros poemas