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W. H. Auden quotes about happy

English Poet February 21, 1907 – September 29, 1973

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Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate. W. H. Auden
Nature and Passion are powerful, but they are also full of grief. True happiness would have the calm and order of bourgeois routine without its utilitarian ignobility and boredom. W. H. Auden
W. H. Auden quote: "Happy the hare at morning, for she cannot read. The hunter's..."
Happy the hare at morning, for she cannot read. The hunter's waking thoughts. W. H. Auden
How happy is the lot of the mathematician! He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that no colleague or rival can ever win a reputation he does not deserve. No cashier writes a letter to the press complaining about the incomprehensibility of Modern Mathematics and comparing it unfavorably with the good old days when mathematicians were content to paper irregularly shaped rooms and fill bathtubs without closing the waste pipe. W. H. Auden
W. H. Auden quote: "Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from..."
Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy. W. H. Auden

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