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Money is the necessity that frees us from necessity.

Money is the necessity that frees us from necessity.

W. H. Auden
Money
"Forewords and Afterwords" by W. H. Auden, ("A Poet of the Actual"), (p. 266), 1973.

It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.

W. H. Auden
Art, Money, Writing
Dyer's Hand (1963) foreword

The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

W. H. Auden
Birthday, Time, Money

Literary confessors are contemptible, like beggars who exhibit their sores for money, but not so contemptible as the public that buys their books.

W. H. Auden
Money, Book, Confession

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