The friends who met here and embraced are gone, Each to his… - W. H. Auden

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The friends who met here and embraced are gone,
Each to his own mistake;

W. H. Auden

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About W. H. Auden

Wystan Hugh Auden (21 February 1907 – 29 September 1973) was an Anglo-American poet known for his vast poetic work in many forms on many themes.

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Native Name: Wystan Hugh Auden

Alternative Names: Wystan Auden • Wystan H Auden • W. H. Wystan Hugh Auden

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Choice of attention — to pay attention to this and ignore that — is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.

Lay your sleeping head, my love,
Human on my faithless arm;

But all the clocks in the city
Began to whirr and chime:
'O let not Time deceive you,
You cannot conquer Time

The friends who met here and embraced are gone, Each to his own mistake; - W. H. Auden

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