W. H. Auden's Quotes

W. H. Auden's Quotes 67

I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river...

Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it...

A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.

When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate...

It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money...

It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money...

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of...

Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary...

A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is...

No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are...

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but...

Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.

If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.

History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers...

Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say.

In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.

We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here...

Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society...

May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have...

In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a...

Learn from your dreams what you lack.

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Music is the best means we have of digesting time.

What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is...

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