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“Doom is dark and deeper than any sea-dingle.”

Quote by W. H. Auden

Book:Canción de cuna y otros poemas

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Canción de cuna y otros poemas

This book is a compilation of various poems, featuring the popular lullaby 'Canción de cuna', along with other works of poetry. more

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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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“If we apply the term revolution to what happened in North America between 1776 and 1829, it has a special meaning. Normally, the word describes the process by which man transforms himself from one kind of man, living in one kind of society, with one way of looking at the world, into another kind of man, another society, another conception of life.... The American case is different: it is not a question of the Old Man transforming himself into the New, but of the New Man becoming alive to the fact that he is new, that he has been transformed already without his having realized it.”

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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.”

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Book:Canción de cuna y otros poemas

Source: Canción de cuna y otros poemas

“A poor American feels guilty at being poor, but less guilty than an American rentier who has inherited wealth but is doing nothingto increase it; what can the latter do but take to drink and psychoanalysis?”

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“There is no love; There are only the various envies, all of them sad.”

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