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Out Quotes by Wystan Hugh Auden
- Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when…
- My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.
- Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.
- Precisely because we do not communicate by singing, a song can be out of place but not out of character; it is just as credible…
- I just try to put the thing out and hope somebody will read it. Someone says: 'Whom do you write for?' I reply: 'Do you…
- Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone. Silence the pianos and with muffled drum Bring…
- In Brueghel’s Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away Quite leisurely from the disaster, the ploughman may Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry, But…
- As I walked out one evening, Walking down Bristol Street, The crowds upon the pavement Were fields of harvest wheat. And down by the brimming…
- 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…
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