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“Behind you swiftly the figure comes softly, The spot on your skin is a shocking disease.”

Quote by W. H. Auden

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W. H. Auden was a prominent 20th-century poet, celebrated for his innovative and influential poetry. His works frequently delve into themes of love, politics, and the human experience, and he is a pivotal figure in the literary movement known as New Criticism. Born on February 21, 1907, in York, England, Auden passed away on September 29, 1973. more

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“Caesar's double-bed is warm As an unimportant clerk Writes i do not like my work On a pink official form.”

Writing Form Work Bed Warm Officials Unimportant Dissatisfaction Clerks

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“Between labor and play stands work. A man is a worker if he is personally interested in the job which society pays him to do; whatfrom the point of view of society is necessary labor is from his point of view voluntary play. Whether a job is to be classified as labor or work depends, not on the job itself, but on the tastes of the individual who undertakes it. The difference does not, for example, coincide with the difference between a manual and a mental job; a gardener or a cobbler may be a worker, a bank clerk a laborer.”

Ifs Men May Doe Play Jobs Individual Differences Work Views Pay Example Depends Taste Labor Workers Point Of View Gardener Manuals Clerks Laborers Cobblers

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“Lost in a haunted wood, Children afraid of the night Who have never been happy or good.”

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“For time is inches And the heart's changes, Where ghost has haunted Lost and wanted.”

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“The habit-forming pain, Mismanagement and grief: We must suffer them all again.”

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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”

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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”

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