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Auden quotes

  • It was an experiment, and I think a successful one, in communal living. It worked largely because Auden ran it; he was exceptionally adept at getting the necessary money out of us when it was due.

    - Paul Frederick Bowles
      On an artist's house in NewYork. Without Stopping:  An Autobiography, ch.12.

  • He's very popular among his mates. I think I'm Auden, he thinks he'sYeats.

    - Gavin Buchanan Ewart
      'Seamus Heaney'.

  • The high-water mark, so to speak, of Socialist literature is W.H. Auden, a sort of gutless Kipling.

    - George pseudonym of  Eric Arthur Blair Orwell
      The Road to Wigan Pier, ch.11.

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