W. H. Auden
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A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
— "Squares and Oblongs", in Poets at Work (1948) p. 170
Wystan Hugh Auden (* 21. Februar 1907 in York; † 29. September 1973 in Wien) war ein englischer Schriftsteller, der 1946 die amerikanische Staatsbürgerschaft annahm.
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A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
Every day America's destroyed and re-created, America is what you do, America is I and you, America is what you choose to make it.
This is the Night Mail crossing the Border, Bringing the cheque and the postal order, Letters for the rich, letters for the poor, The shop at the corner, the girl next door.
Acts of injustice doneBetween the setting and the rising sunIn history lie like bones, each one.
Happy the hare at morning, for she cannot readThe Hunter's waking thoughts.
Die sechs Teilsignale hinter dem Fame-Score und ihre Ränge in den Ranglisten.
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