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W H Auden Quotes
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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 Quotes)
Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self (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)
No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games (W H Auden Quotes)
One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell (W H Auden Quotes)
Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return (W H Auden Quotes)
Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy (W H Auden Quotes)
You know there are no secrets in America. It’s quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared relation between two people (W H Auden Quotes)
A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can’t think of anything else to do (W H Auden Quotes)
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 Quotes)
The only way to spend New Year’s Eve is either quietly with friends or in a brothel. Otherwise when the evening ends and people pair off, someone is bound to be left in tears (W H Auden Quotes)
The truly tragic kind of suffering is the kind produced and defiantly insisted upon by the hero himself so that, instead of making him better, it makes him worse and when he dies he is not reconciled to the law but defiant, that is, damned. Lear is not a tragic hero, othello is (W H Auden Quotes)
I don’t think the mystical experience can be verbalized. When the ego disappears, so does power over language (W H Auden Quotes)
One rational voice is dumb: over a grave the household of Impulse mourns one dearly loved. Sad is Eros, builder of cities, and weeping anarchic Aphrodite (W H Auden Quotes)
Earth, receive an honored guest; William Yeats is laid to rest. Let the Irish vessel lie Emptied of its poetry (W H Auden Quotes)
Christmas and Easter can be subjects for poetry, but Good Friday, like Auschwitz, cannot. The reality is so horrible it is not surprising that people should have found it a stumbling block to faith (W H Auden Quotes)
To the man-in-the-street, who, I’m sorry to say, is a keen observer of life. The word Intellectual suggests straight away. A man who’s untrue to his wife (W H Auden Quotes)
The actors today really need the whip hand. They’re so lazy. They haven’t got the sense of pride in their profession that the less socially elevated musical comedy and music hall people or acrobats have. The theater has never been any good since the actors became gentlemen (W H Auden Quotes)
In a land which is fully settled, most men must accept their local environment or try to change it by political means; only the exceptionally gifted or adventurous can leave to seek his fortune elsewhere. In America, on the other hand, to move on and make a fresh start somewhere else is still the normal reaction to dissatisfaction and failure (W H Auden Quotes)
The friends who met here and embraced are gone, Each to his own mistake; (W H Auden Quotes)
The sky is darkening like a stain Something is going to fall like rain And it won’t be flowers (W H Auden Quotes)
Shall memory restore The steps and the shore, The face and the meeting place; (W H Auden Quotes)
Political history is far too criminal to be a fit subject of study for the young. Children should acquire their heroes and villians from fiction (W H Auden Quotes)
The slogan of Hell: Eat or be eaten. The slogan of Heaven: Eat and be eaten (W H Auden Quotes)
But he would have us most of all remember to be enthusiastic over the night. Not only for the sense of wonder it alone has to offer but also because it needs our love. For with sad eyes its delectable creatures look up and beg us dumbly to ask them to follow. They are exiles who long for a future that lies in our power (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)
Organic growth is a cyclical process; it is just as true to say that the oak is a potential acorn as it is to say the acorn is a potential oak. But the process of writing a poem, of making any art object, is not cyclical but a motion in one direction toward a definite end (W H Auden Quotes)
August for the people and their favourite islands. Daily the steamers sidle up to meet The effusive welcome of the pier (W H Auden Quotes)
It’s impossible to represent a saint [in Art]. It becomes boring. Perhaps because he is, like the Saturday Evening Post people, inthe position of having almost infinitely free will (W H Auden Quotes)