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W H Auden Quotes
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No being can make another one happy (W H Auden Quotes)
Men will pay large sums to whores for telling them they are not bores (W H Auden Quotes)
Money cannot buy the fuel of love but is excellent kindling (W H Auden Quotes)
Words are for those with promises to keep (W H Auden Quotes)
Detective stories have nothing to do with works of art (W H Auden Quotes)
Routine, in an intelligent man, is a sign of ambition (W H Auden Quotes)
We are all here on earth to help others (W H Auden Quotes)
Great art is clear thinking about mixed feelings (W H Auden Quotes)
We are lived by powers we pretend to understand (W H Auden Quotes)
Adjectives are the potbelly of poetry (W H Auden Quotes)
Poetry is the only art people haven’t learned to consume like soup (W H Auden Quotes)
The eye likes novelty, but the ear craves familiarity (W H Auden Quotes)
Time will say nothing but I told you so (W H Auden Quotes)
Hunger allows no choice (W H Auden Quotes)
In life the loser’s score is always zero (W H Auden Quotes)
Money is the necessity that frees us from necessity (W H Auden Quotes)
To hunt for symbols in a fairy tale is absolutely fatal (W H Auden Quotes)
To discover how to be human now is the reason we follow this star (W H Auden Quotes)
History marches to the drum of a clear idea (W H Auden Quotes)
Weep for the lives your wishes never led (W H Auden Quotes)
Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say: Sanctity is the state about which theology has nothing to say (W H Auden Quotes)
In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they like, but he must never, never be unfaithful to them (W H Auden Quotes)
One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell (W H Auden Quotes)
Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy (W H Auden Quotes)
The friends who met here and embraced are gone, Each to his own mistake; (W H Auden Quotes)
Shall memory restore The steps and the shore, The face and the meeting place; (W H Auden Quotes)
The slogan of Hell: Eat or be eaten. The slogan of Heaven: Eat and be eaten (W H Auden Quotes)
Thou shalt not answer questionnaires Or quizzes upon world affairs, Nor with compliance Take any test. Thou shalt not sit with statisticians nor commit A social science (W H Auden Quotes)
It is nonsense to speak of ‘higher’ and ‘lower’ pleasures. To a hungry man it is, rightly, more important that he eat than that he philosophize (W H Auden Quotes)
Those who hate to go to bed fear death; those who hate to get up fear life (W H Auden Quotes)