“Put the car away; when life fails
What's the good of going to Wales?
Here am I, here are you:
But what does it mean? What are we going to do?”

—  W. H. Auden

It's no use raising a shout (1929), first published in book form in Poems (1930)

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Anglo-American poet 1907–1973

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