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“ Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one. ”

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Some books are undeservedly forgotten none are undeservedly remembered.

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W. H. Auden Books Reading

What the mass media offer is not popular art but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food forgotten and replaced by a new dish.

~ W. H. Auden

W. H. Auden Enjoyment Pleasure

The relation of faith between subject and object is unique in every case. Hundreds may believe but each has to believe by himself.

~ W. H. Auden

W. H. Auden Faith Unity

If we really want to live we'd better start at once to try.

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W. H. Auden Getting Going