W. H. Auden Quotes About History
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Political history is far too criminal to be a fit subject of study for the young. Children should acquire their heroes and villians from fiction.
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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...
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.
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Man is a history-making creature, who can neither repeat his past, nor leave it behind.
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