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Addiction

All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.

- W. H. Auden

Other quotes by W. H. Auden

Love

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

- W. H. Auden

Evil

Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good.

- W. H. Auden

Art

Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.

- W. H. Auden

Experience First People

Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another.

- W. H. Auden

Sound Death

Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.

- W. H. Auden

Crime Society

Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.

- W. H. Auden

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