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PLUNGE INTO THE WORDS AND WORLD OF W. H. AUDEN

• 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

• Let all your thinks be thanks. | W. H. Auden

• We would rather be ruined than changed; We would rather die in our dread Than climb the cross of the moment And let our illusions die. | W. H. Auden

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

• There must always be two kinds of art: escape-art, for man needs escape as he needs food and deep sleep, and parable-art, that art which shall teach man to unlearn hatred and learn love. | W. H. Auden

• Laziness acknowledges the relation of the present to the past but ignores its relation to the future; impatience acknowledge its relation to the future but ignores its relation to the past; neither the lazy nor the impatient man, that is, accepts the present instant in its full reality and so cannot love his neighbour completely. | W. H. Auden in W. H. Auden: Prose, Volume III, 1949-1955
  

Take some time to ponder one or two quotations that resonate with you and share your reflections in the comments section.

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