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Quotes from The Age of Anxiety — W. H. Auden

1907–1973 England

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Sob, heavy world,
Sob as you spin
Mantled in mist, remote from the happy.

The Age of Anxiety (1948)

Let us then
Consider rather the incessant Now of
The traveler through time, his tired mind
Biased towards bigness since his body must
Exaggerate to exist, possessed by hope.

The Age of Anxiety (1948)

We would rather be ruined than changed
We would rather die in our dread
Than climb the cross of the moment
And let our illusions die.

The Age of Anxiety (1948)

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