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W. H. Auden Quotes

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.
W. H. Auden

Biography

Author Profession: Poet
Nationality: English
Born: February 21, 1907
Died: September 29, 1973

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Select W. H. Auden Quotations

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

A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.
W. H. Auden

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

Learn from your dreams what you lack.
W. H. Auden

All that we are not stares back at what we are.
W. H. Auden

Now is the age of anxiety.
W. H. Auden

For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?
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Art, Consumed, Dish, Entertainment, Food, Forgotten, Intended, Mass, Media, New, Popular, Which