W. H. Auden Quotes - Page 18

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• All the rest is silence On the other side of the wall, And the silence ripeness, And the ripeness all.

  W. H. Auden

  Wall, Silence, Sides

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• In headaches and in worry
  Vaguely life leaks away,
  And Time will have his fancy
  To-morrow or today.

  W. H. Auden

  Worry, Fancy, Today

  W.H. Auden (2016). “Canción de cuna y otros poemas”, p.75, DEBOLS!LLO

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• Like love we don't know where or why Like love we cant compel or fly Like Love we often weep Like Love we seldom keep

  W. H. Auden

  Like Love, Knows, Cant

  "Law like Love" l. 57 (1939)

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• The sky is darkening like a stain Something is going to fall like rain And it won't be flowers

  W. H. Auden

  Rain, Flower, Fall

  'The Witnesses' (1935) l. 67

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• I sit in one of the dives
  On Fifty-second Street
  Uncertain and afraid
  As the clever hopes expire
  Of a low dishonest decade

  W. H. Auden

  Hope, Clever, Fear

  "September 1, 1939" l. 1 (1939)

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• There was still gold and silver in the mountains,
  And hunger was a more immediate sorrow

  W. H. Auden

  Sorrow, Gold, Mountain

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• The surest sign that a man has a genuine taste of his own is that he is uncertain of it.

  W. H. Auden

  Men, Taste, Genuine

  "The Dyer's Hand, and Other Essays" by W. H. Auden, ("Reading"), (p. 6), 1962.

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