Intellectual disgrace; Stares from every human face, And the seas of pity lie; Locked and frozen in each eye. (W. H. Auden)

Intellectual disgrace; Stares from every human face, And the seas of pity lie; Locked and frozen in each eye.

W. H. Auden

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