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  • The windiest militant trash Important Persons shout Is not so crude as our wish: What mad Nijinsky wrote About Diaghilev Is true of the normal heart; For the error bred in the bone Of each woman and each man Craves what it cannot have; Not universal love But to be loved alone.

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    "September 1, 1939" l. 59 (1939)

  • Acts of injustice done Between the setting and the rising sun In history lie like bones, each one.

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    W. H. Auden
    "The Ascent of F6: A Tragedy in Two Acts". Play by W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood, 1936.

  • 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 out the coffin, let the mourners come.

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    W. H. Auden
    "Funeral Blues" l. 1 (1936)
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W. H. Auden

  • Born: February 21, 1907
  • Died: September 29, 1973
  • Occupation: Poet
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