"One way or another, all the poets of the thirties and forties reacted to Auden, either by rejecting him or trying to absorb him."

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The most conspicuous thing about suffering is, as W.H. Auden once observed, its banality. The day is green, the sun is shinging, someone is eating, or opening a window, the torturer's horse is scatching its innocent behind on a tree, and in a mere second someone we love is dead.

— Michael Jackson