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Famous W. H. Auden Quotes
“Doom is dark and deeper than any sea-dingle.”
“Long ago the accusations had begun, And suddenly knew by whom it had been judged”
“There is no love; There are only the various envies, all of them sad.”
“There was still gold and silver in the mountains, And hunger was a more immediate sorrow”
“We honor founders of these starving cities, Whose honor is the image of our sorrow.”
“We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.”
“A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.”
“Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.”
“Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.”
“If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.”
“All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.”
“No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.”
“'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'”
“In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.”
“A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.”
“We all have these places where shy humiliations gambol on sunny afternoons.”
“To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?”
“You owe it to all of us all get on with what you're good at.”
“One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell.”