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Dichter, Professor für Dichtkunst/Oxford (England/USA, 1907 - 1973).

Wyston Hugh Auden · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

Wyston Hugh Auden wäre heute 118 Jahre, 1 Monat, 8 Tage oder 43.136 Tage alt.

Geboren am 21.02.1907 in York
Gestorben am 28.09.1973 in Wien
Sternzeichen: ♓ Fische

• Of course 'behavorism' works. So does torture.

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• Out on the lawn I lie in bed, / Vega conspicuous overhead.

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• Pleasure is by no means an infallible guide, but it is the least fallible.

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• Private faces in public places / Are wiser and nicer / Than public faces in private places.

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• Private faces in public places are wiser and nicer than public faces in private places.

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• Sob, heavy world, / Sob as you spin / Mantled in mist, remote from the happy.

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• Some thirty inches from my nose / The frontier of my person goes, / And all the untilled air between / Is private pagus or demesne. / Stranger, unless with bedroom eyes / I beckon you to fraternize, / Beware of rudely crossing it: / I have no gun, but I can spit.

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• The desires of the heart are as crooked as corkscrews / Not to be born is the best for man.

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• The glacier knocks in the cupboard, / The desert sighs in the bed, / And the crack in the tea-cup opens / A lane to the land of the dead.

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• The mercury sank in the mouth of the dying day. / What instruments we have agree / The day of his death was a dark cold day.

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• The stars are dead; the animals will not look: / We are left alone with our day, and the time is short and / History to the defeated / May say Alas but cannot help or pardon.

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• This is the Night Mail crossing the Border, / Bringing the cheque and the postal order, / Letters for the rich, letters for the poor, / The shop at the corner, the girl next door.

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• This society is going smash; / They cannot fool us with how fast they go, / How much they cost each other and the gods! / A culture is no better than its woods.

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• To ask the hard question is simple.

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• To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself.

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• To read is to translate, for no two person's experiences are the same.

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• To save your world you asked this man to die: / Would this man, could he see you now, ask why?

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• To the man-in-the-street, who, I'm sorry to say, / Is a keen observer of life, / The word "Intellectual" suggests straight away / A man who's untrue to his wife.

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• To us he is no more a person / now but a whole climate of opinion.

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• Was he free? Was he happy? The question is absurd: / Had anything been wrong, we should certainly have heard.

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