Lauren
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“He was my North, my South, my East and West,
My working week and my Sunday rest,
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;
I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong.”
― Collected Poems
My working week and my Sunday rest,
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;
I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong.”
― Collected Poems
“The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.”
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“A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.”
― The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose, Volume II: 1939-1948
― The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose, Volume II: 1939-1948
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