Though the great artists of the past could not change the course of history, it is only through their work that we are able to break bread with the dead, and without communion with the dead a fully human life is impossible.

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Auden, Wystan Hugh. "Words and the Word." Oct. 1967. University of Kent, Canterbury, England, UK. Lecture.

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Auden, Wystan Hugh. "Words and the Word." Secondary Worlds. Random House, 1968.