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We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.

~W. H. Auden

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Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.

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If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.

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A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

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Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.

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I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street.

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All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.

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In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.

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All that we are not stares back at what we are.

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Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Poet

Born: February 21st, 1907

Died: September 29th, 1973

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