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W H Auden Quotes
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If there are any of you at the back who do not hear me, please don’t raise your hands because I am also nearsighted (W H Auden Quotes)
My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth (W H Auden Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Literary confessors are contemptible, like beggars who exhibit their sores for money, but not so contemptible as the public that buys their books (W H Auden Quotes)
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 Quotes)
This great society is going smash; they cannot fool us with how fast they go, how much they cost each other and the gods! A culture is no better than its woods (W H Auden Quotes)
Their fate must always be the same as yours, to suffer the loss they were afraid of, yes, holders of one position, wrong for years (W H Auden Quotes)
How happy 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 (W H Auden Quotes)
As a poet there is only one political duty, and that is to defend one’s language against corruption. When it is corrupted, people lose faith in what they hear and this leads to violence (W H Auden Quotes)
It takes little talent to see clearly what lies under one’s nose, a good deal of it to know in which direction to point that organ (W H Auden Quotes)
I used to try and concentrate the poem so much that there wasn’t a word that wasn’t essential. This leads to becoming boring and constipated (W H Auden Quotes)
Desire, even in its wildest tantrums, can neither persuade me it is love nor stop me from wishing it were (W H Auden Quotes)
There are good books which are only for adults. There are no good books which are only for children (W H Auden Quotes)
A person incapable of imaging another world than given to him by his senses would be subhuman, and a person who identifies his imaginary world with the world of sensory fact has become insane (W H Auden Quotes)
Language is the mother, not the handmaiden, of thought; words will tell you things you never thought or felt before (W H Auden Quotes)
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)
Civilizations should be measured by the degree of diversity attained and the degree of unity retained (W H Auden Quotes)
One of the troubles of our times is that we are all, I think, precocious as personalities and backward as characters (W H Auden Quotes)
We do not change as we grow up. The difference between the child and the adult is that the former doesn’t know who he is and the latter does (W H Auden Quotes)
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 Quotes)
In the end, art is small beer. The really serious things are earning one’s living so as not to be a parasite and loving one’s neighbor (W H Auden Quotes)
Who on earth invented the silly convention that it is boring or impolite to talk shop? Nothing is more interesting to listen to, especially if the shop is not one’s own (W H Auden Quotes)
Few can remember clearly when innocence came to a sudden end, the moment at which we ask for the first time: Am I loved (W H Auden Quotes)
The definition of prayer is paying careful and concentrated attention to something other than your own constructions (W H Auden Quotes)
The chances are that, in the course of his lifetime, the major poet will write more bad poems than the minor, simply because major poets write a lot (W H Auden Quotes)
A poet feels the impulse to create a work of art when the passive awe provoked by an event is transformed into a desire to express that awe in a rite of worship (W H Auden Quotes)
What answer to the meaning of existence should one require beyond the right to exercise one’s gifts (W H Auden Quotes)
Aside from purely technical analysis, nothing can be said about music, except when it is bad; when it is good, one can only listen and be grateful (W H Auden Quotes)
The element of craftsmanship in poetry is obscured by the fact that all men are taught to speak and most to read and write, while very few men are taught to draw or paint or write music (W H Auden Quotes)
Machines are beneficial to the degree that they eliminate the need for labor, harmful to the degree that they eliminate the need for skill (W H Auden Quotes)