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Dichter, Professor für Dichtkunst/Oxford (England/USA, 1907 - 1973).

Wyston Hugh Auden · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

Wyston Hugh Auden wäre heute 117 Jahre, 7 Monate, 16 Tage oder 42.963 Tage alt.

Geboren am 21.02.1907 in York
Gestorben am 28.09.1973 in Wien
Sternzeichen: ♓ Fische

• Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.

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• God bless the USA, so large / So friendly, and so rich.

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• Goodness is easier to recognize than to define.

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• Happy the hare at morning, for she cannot read / The Hunter's waking thoughts.

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• Harrow the house of the dead; look shining at / New styles of architecture, a change of heart.

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• He was my North, my South, my East and West, / My working week and my Sunday rest, / My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song; / I thought that love would last forever; I was wrong.

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• I and the public know / What all schoolchildren learn, / Those to whom evil is done / Do evil in return.

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• I see it often since you've been away: / The island, the veranda, and the fruit; / The tiny steamer breaking from the bay; / The literary mornings with its hoot; / Our ugly comic servant; and then you, / Lovely and willing every afternoon.

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• I think the first prerequisite to civilization is an ability to make polite conversation.

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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, / I'll love you till the ocean / Is folded and hung up to dry / And the seven stars go squawking / Like geese about the sky.

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• In the nightmare of the dark / All the dogs of Europe bark, / All the living nations wait, / Each sequestered in its hate.

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• It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practising it.

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• Lay your sleeping head, my love, / Human on my faithless arm.

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• Let us honor if we can / The vertical man / Though we value none / But the horizontal one.

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• Look, stranger, at this island now.

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• Machines are beneficial to the degree that they eliminate the need for labor, harmful to the degree that they eliminate the need for skill.

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• Man is a history-making creature who can neither repeat his past nor leave it behind.

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• Music is the best means we have of digesting time.

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• My Dear One is mine as mirrors are lonely.

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• No hero is mortal till he dies.

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