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US (English-born) critic and poet
wrote poetry collection "The Age of Anxiety" 1947 (Pulitzer Prize for poetry 1948)
Bollingen Prize 1953
son-in-law of Thomas Mann 1935
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- "In those whom I like, I can find no common denominator; in those whom I love I can: they all make me laugh."
- "Weep for the lives your wishes never led."
- "Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered."
- "Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh."
- "May it not be that, just as we have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that faith is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?"
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