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The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition (W H Auden Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Political history is far too criminal and pathological to be a fit subject of study for the young. Children should acquire their heroes and villains from fiction (W H Auden Quotes)
When he laughed, respectable senators burst with laughter, and when he cried the little children died in the streets (W H Auden Quotes)
We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and let our illusions die (W H Auden Quotes)
In general, when reading a scholarly critic, one profits more from his quotations than from his comments (W H Auden Quotes)
Without art, we should have no notion of the sacred; without science, we should always worship false gods (W H Auden Quotes)
All poets adore explosions, thunderstorms, tornadoes, conflagrations, ruins, scenes of spectacular carnage. The poetic imagination is therefore not at all a desirable quality in a chief of state (W H Auden Quotes)
The image of myself which I try to create in my own mind in order that I may love myself is very different from the image which I try to create in the minds of others in order that they may love me (W H Auden Quotes)
To have a sense of sin means to feel guilty at there being an ethical choice to make, a guilt which, however good I may become, remains unchanged (W H Auden Quotes)
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 Quotes)
All wishes, whatever their apparent content, have the same and unvarying meaning: I refuse to be what I am (W H Auden Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation (W H Auden Quotes)
Whatever the field under discussion, those who engage in debate must not only believe in each other’s good faith, but also in their capacity to arrive at the truth (W H Auden Quotes)
A craftsman knows in advance what the finished result will be, while the artist knows only what it will be when he has finished it (W H Auden Quotes)
Most people are even less original in their dreaming than in their waking life; their dreams are more monotonous than their thoughts and oddly enough, more literary (W H Auden Quotes)
In all technologically advanced countries, fashion has replaced tradition, so that involuntary membership in a society can no longer provide a feeling of community (W H Auden Quotes)
Genealogies are admirable things, provided they do not encourage the curious delusion that some families are older than others (W H Auden Quotes)
Was he free? Was he happy? the question is absurd: Had anything been wrong, we should certainly have heard (W H Auden Quotes)
The mercury sank in the mouth of the dying day. What instruments we have agree the day of his death was a dark cold day (W H Auden Quotes)
A man has his distinctive personal scent which his wife, his children and his dog can recognize. A crowd has a generalized stink. The public is odorless (W H Auden Quotes)
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 Quotes)
In a game, just losing is almost as satisfying as just winning... In life the loser’s score is always zero (W H Auden Quotes)
Every man carries with him through life a mirror, as unique and impossible to get rid of as his shadow (W H Auden Quotes)
The most exciting rhythms seem unexpected and complex, the most beautiful melodies simple and inevitable (W H Auden Quotes)
Man desires to be free and he desires to feel important. This places him in a dilemma, for the more he emancipates himself from necessity the less important he feels (W H Auden Quotes)
I cannot accept the doctrine that in poetry there is a suspension of belief. 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 Quotes)
When one has great gifts, what answer to the meaning of existence should one require beyond the right to exercise them (W H Auden Quotes)
Anyone who has a child today should train him to be either a physicist or a ballet dancer. Then he’ll escape (W H Auden Quotes)