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W.H. Auden Quote: “It’s frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it. In England, one feels all the social restraints holding one back. But here, anything can happen.”
W.H. Auden Quote: “The relation of faith between subject and object is unique in every case. Hundreds may believe, but each has to believe by himself.”
W.H. Auden Quote: “Long ago the accusations had begun, And suddenly knew by whom it had been judged.”
W.H. Auden Quote: “To my generation no other English poet seemed so perfectly to express the sensibility of a male adolescent. If I do not now turn to him very often, I am eternally grateful to him for the joy he gave me in my youth.”
W.H. Auden Quote: “People always get what they want. But there is a price for everything. Failures are either those who do not know what they want or are not prepared to pay the price asked them. The price varies from individual to individual. Some get things at bargain-sale prices, others only at famine prices. But it is no use grumbling. Whatever price you are asked, you must pay.”
W.H. Auden Quote: “You will be a poet because you will always be humiliated.”
W.H. Auden Quote: “Composing mortals with immortal fire.”
W.H. Auden Quote: “One of the troubles of our times is that we are all, I think, precocious as personalities and backward as characters.”
W.H. Auden Quote: “Our sufferings and weaknesses, in so far as they are personal, are of no literary interest whatsoever. They are only interesting in so far as we can see them as typical of the human condition.”
W.H. Auden Quote: “May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that ‘faith’ is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?”
W.H. Auden Quote: “When one looks into the window of a store which sells devotional art objects, one can’t help wishing the iconoclasts had won.”
W.H. Auden Quote: “Yet no one hears his own remarks as prose.”
W.H. Auden Quote: “A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.”
W.H. Auden Quote: “I am sure it is everyone’s experience, as it has been mine, that any discovery we make about ourselves or the meaning of life is never, like a scientific discovery, a coming upon something entirely new and unsuspected; it is rather, the coming to conscious recognition of something, which we really knew all the time but, because we were unwilling to formulate it correctly, we did not hitherto know we knew.”
W.H. Auden Quote: “To hunt for symbols in a fairy tale is absolutely fatal.”
W.H. Auden Quote: “A poet must never make a statement simply because it is sounds poetically exciting; he must also believe it to be true.”
W.H. Auden Quote: “Any society is in danger of dismissing the virtue of another society because of its vices, and a democracy is always in danger of not paying enough attention to manners and forms.”
W.H. Auden Quote: “I write because I love to play with language.”
W.H. Auden Quote: “Precisely because we do not communicate by singing, a song can be out of place but not out of character; it is just as credible that a stupid person should sing beautifully as that a clever person should do so.”
W.H. Auden Quote: “Oh, how I wish that Orwell were still alive, so that I could read his comments on contemporary events!”
W.H. Auden Quote: “The surest sign that a man has a genuine taste of his own is that he is uncertain of it.”
W.H. Auden Quote: “Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession.”
W.H. Auden Quote: “We honor founders of these starving cities, Whose honor is the image of our sorrow.”
W.H. Auden Quote: “What answer to the meaning of existence should one require beyond the right to exercise one’s gifts?”
W.H. Auden Quote: “The older lives like not to be stood in rows or at right angles.”
W.H. Auden Quote: “It’s usually the stupid people that develop long illnesses. You need more than indolence and selfishness, you need endurance to make a good patient.”
W.H. Auden Quote: “That the speech of self-disclosure should be translatable seems to me very odd, but I am convinced that it is. The conclusion that I draw is that the only quality which all human being without exception possess is uniqueness: any characteristic, on the other hand, which one individual can be recognized as having in common with another, like red hair or the English language, implies the existence of other individual qualities which this classification excludes.”
W.H. Auden Quote: “The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.”
W.H. Auden Quote: “From beginning to end Wilde performed his life and continued to do so even after fame had taken the plot out of his own hands.”
W.H. Auden Quote: “One can only blaspheme if one believes.”
W.H. Auden Quote: “Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another.”
W.H. Auden Quote: “It is time for the destruction of error.”
W.H. Auden Quote: “If people marry on the assumption that love must always overcome obstacles, they will either become unfaithful or they will make things difficult. The better you know someone, the better you can torture him: man and wife become each other’s devils.”
W.H. Auden Quote: “Dance, dance, dance till you drop.”
W.H. Auden Quote: “Into this neutral air Where blind skyscrapers use Their full height to proclaim The strength of Collective Man, Each language pours its vain Competitive excuse.”
W.H. Auden Quote: “What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.”
W.H. Auden Quote: “With the farming of a verse Make a vineyard of the curse.”
W.H. Auden Quote: “Narcissus does not fall in love with his reflection because it is beautiful, but because it is his. If it were his beauty that enthralled him, he would be set free in a few years by its fading.”
W.H. Auden Quote: “Here am I, Here are you: but what does it mean? What are we going to do?”
W.H. Auden Quote: “Sexual fidelity is more important in a homosexual relationship than in any other. In other relationships there are a variety of ties. But here, fidelity is the only bond.”
W.H. Auden Quote: “Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.”
W.H. Auden Quote: “The definition of prayer is paying careful and concentrated attention to something other than your own constructions.”
W.H. Auden Quote: “The wolves will get you if the moths won’t.”
W.H. Auden Quote: “The law cannot forgive, for the law has not been wronged, only broken; only persons can be wronged. The law can pardon, but it can only pardon what it has the power to punish.”
W.H. Auden Quote: “All good art is in the nature of a letter written to amuse a sick friend. Too much art, particularly in our time, is only a letter written to oneself.”
W.H. Auden Quote: “When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes.”
W.H. Auden Quote: “An unmanly sort of man whose love life seems to have been largely confined to crying in laps and playing mouse.”
W.H. Auden Quote: “Every poet has his dream reader: mine keeps a look out for curious prosodic fauna like bacchics and choriambs.”
W.H. Auden Quote: “There are three cardinal rules – don’t take somebody else’s boyfriend unless you’ve been specifically invited to do so, don’t take a drink without being asked, and keep a scrupulous accounting in financial matters.”
W.H. Auden Quote: “How happy is the lot of the mathematician! He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that no colleague or rival can ever win a reputation he does not deserve. No cashier writes a letter to the press complaining about the incomprehensibility of Modern Mathematics and comparing it unfavorably with the good old days when mathematicians were content to paper irregularly shaped rooms and fill bathtubs without closing the waste pipe.”
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