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You need not see what someone is doing to know if it is his vocation, you have only to watch his eyes: a cook mixing a sauce, a surgeon making a primary incision, a clerk completing a bill of lading wear the same rapt expression, forgetting themselves in a function. In Memory of W. Madrid is the heart. Auden, The Complete Works of W.

We would rather be ruined than changed. Inspirational , Leadership , Joy. Auden, Collected Poems.

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Sylvia Plath Poet. It will enhance his literary reputation among those who feel the same as he does. Auden, Another Time. I'll love you till the ocean Is folded and hung up to dry And the seven stars go squawking Like geese about the sky. The words of a dead man Are modified in the guts of the living. Birthplace: York, England, United Kingdom.

What answer to the meaning of existence should one require beyond the right to exercise one's gifts? Art , People , Poetry. Wystan Hugh Auden Faces , Wiser. Total quotes: Password: Forgot Password? Auden 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.

Rainer Maria Rilke Poet. We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know. Igor Stravinsky Composer. Curious , Genealogy , Delusion.

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Dylan Thomas Poet. To-morrow for the young the poets exploding like bombs, The walks by the lake, the weeks of perfect communion; To-morrow the bicycle races Through the suburbs on summer evenings. Auden , Collected Poems. With the farming of a verse Make a vineyard of the curse, Sing of human unsuccess In a rapture of distress;. I smell blood and an era of prominent madmen.

The beautiful roar of the chorus under the dome; To-morrow the exchanging of tips on the breeding of terriers, The eager election of chairmen By the sudden forest of hands.