O plunge your hands in water, Plunge them in up to the wrist; Stare, stare in the basin And wonder what you've missed.<p>'The glacier knocks in the c… - W. H. Auden

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O plunge your hands in water, Plunge them in up to the wrist; Stare, stare in the basin And wonder what you've missed.<p>'The glacier knocks in the cupboard, The desert sighs in the bed, And the crack in the tea-cup opens A lane to the land of the dead.

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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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The glacier knocks in the cupboard,
The desert sighs in the bed,
And the crack in the teacup opens
A lane to the land of the dead.
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Originators like W. H. Auden:
T. S. Eliot Czesław Miłosz E. M. Forster William Carlos Williams Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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"Human "nature" is a nature continually in quest of itself, obliged at every moment to transcend what it was a moment before."
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