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“ ”Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
About W. H. Auden
Wystan Hugh Auden (21 February 1907 – 29 September 1973) was an Anglo-American poet known for his vast poetic work in many forms on many themes.
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Additional quotes by W. H. Auden
In the prison of his days
Teach the free man how to praise
Oh dear white children, casual as birds,
Playing among the ruined languages,
So small beside their large confusing words.
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him.