When one has great gifts, what answer to the meaning of existence
should one require beyond the right to exercise them?
--W. H. Auden English-US poet, dramatist, editor
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
--W. H. Auden
A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gourmets,
some gourmands, and a good many take their images precooked out of a can
and swallow them down whole, absent-mindedly and with little relish.
--W. H. Auden (1907-1973) English-US poet, dramatist, editor
He wrote passionately about social problems and post
WW I anxiety; won Pulitzer for verse Age of Anxiety, 1948.
Only those in the last stage of disease could believe that
children are true judges of character.
--W. H. Auden
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