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W. H. Auden, Wystan Hugh Auden, born Feb. 21, 1907, York, Yorkshire, Eng., died Sept. 29, 1973, Vienna, Austria. English-born poet and man of letters who achieved early fame in the 1930s as a hero of the left during the Great Depression. Most of his verse dramas of this period were written in collaboration with Christopher Isherwood. In 1939 Auden settled in the United States, becoming a U.S. citizen.

  • 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.

  • Christmas and Easter can be subjects for poetry, but Good Friday, like Auschwitz, cannot. The reality is so horrible, it is not surprising that people should have found it a stumbling block to faith.

  • God is Love, we are taught as children to believe. But when we first begin to get some inkling of how He loves us, we are repelled; it seems so cold, indeed, not love at all as we understand the word.

  • A man has his distinctive personal scent which his wife, his children and his dog can recognize. A crowd has a generalized stink. The public is odorless.

  • I cannot accept the doctrine that in poetry there is a suspension of belief A poet must never make a statement simply because it is sounds poetically exciting; he must also believe it to be true.

  • Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable.

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