Quote by W. H. Auden (1907-1973)

Accurate scholarship can
unearth the whole offence
from luther untill noe
that has driven a culture mad.
From what occured at linz
what huge imago made
a psychopathic god.
i and the public know
what all schoolchildren learn
those to whom evil is done
do evil in return.

— W. H. Auden. British-American poet (1907–1973)

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We are here on Earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I don't know.
No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
To save your world you asked this man to die;
Would this man, could he see you now, ask why?
A poet's hope: to be,
like some valley cheese,
local, but prized elsewhere.

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