The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money still less as is apt to happen when these are abandoned of race but of age.
Quotes By W. H. Auden
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Of all possible subjects travel is the most difficult for an artist as it...
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When I find myself in the company of scientists I feel like a shabby curate...
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Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of...
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Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary...
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No good opera plot can be sensible for people do not sing when they are...
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Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but...
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A poet is before anything else a person who is passionately in love with...
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Among those whom I like or admire I can find no common denominator but...
Quotes About Age
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The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and...
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The first crocodile I ever caught was at nine years of age and it was a...
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Time in general has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does...
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Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the...
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If there is anything I would do differently in my life it is that I would...
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What though youth gave love and roses Age still leaves us friends and wine.
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In a spiritually sensitive culture then it might well be that age is...
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The age we live in is a busy age in which knowledge is rapidly advancing...
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We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem...
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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.