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A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.

~W. H. Auden

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The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

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It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.

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God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich.

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You owe it to all of us all get on with what you're good at.

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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.

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Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.

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No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.

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You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared relation between two people.

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When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Poet

Born: February 21st, 1907

Died: September 29th, 1973

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