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Famous W. H. Auden Quotes
“The older lives like not to be stood in rows or at right angles.”
“If there are any souls in hell, it is because that is where they insist on being.”
“Those who hate to go to bed fear death; those who hate to get up fear life.”
“Nobody is ever sent to Hell: he or she insists on going there.”
“The camera may do justice to laughter, but must degrade sorrow.”
“Human language is mythological and metaphorical by nature.”
“Our claim to our own bodies and our world is our catastrophe.”
“As a poet, there is only one political duty, and that is to defend one's language from corruption.”
“Poetry might be defined as the clear expression of mixed feelings.”
“Soft as the earth is mankind and both need to be altered.”
“The commonest ivory tower is that of the average man, the state of passivity towards experience.”
“Few people take an interest in Iceland, but in those few the interest is passionate.”
“I and the public know What all schoolchildren learn, Those to whom evil is done Do evil in return.”