Confined Quote by W. H. Auden

“An unmanly sort of man whose love life seems to have been largely confined to crying in laps and playing mouse.”

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Most poetry is the utterance of a man in some state of passion, love, joy, grief, rage, etc., and no doubt this is as it should be. But no man is perpetually in a passion and those states in which he is amused and amusing, detached and irreverent, if less important, are no less amusing. If there were no poets…

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I and the public know What all schoolchildren learn, Those to whom evil is done Do evil in return.

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One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell.

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Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.

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