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Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good.

~W. H. Auden

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What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.

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Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.

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Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

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'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'

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In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they like, but he must never, never be unfaithful to them.

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Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.

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If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away.

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Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.

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A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Poet

Born: February 21st, 1907

Died: September 29th, 1973

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