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W. H. Auden Quotes

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.
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.
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A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.
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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.
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Learn from your dreams what you lack.
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All that we are not stares back at what we are.
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Now is the age of anxiety.
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For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?
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Words

Bored, Craves, Ear, Eye, Familiar, Hand, Impatient, Lazy, Novel, Other, Repetition, Shocked, Tends, The Unexpected, Unexpected

Definitions

Bored, Ear, Eye, Familiar, Hand, Impatient, Lazy, Novel, Other, Repetition, Shocked, Unexpected