News at Eleven: As Auden had written in the face

of Hitler in 1939, "All I have is a voice/To undo the folded lie." Yet a mere voice can still outlive an ogre. Only 21 years after he wrote those contemptuous lines about the Soviet army in Prague, it was words alone--and poets and singers--who brought down the edifice of falsehood and brutality that had been imposed on Prague.

from Los Angeles Times: Auden: A poet for our times

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