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The religious definition of truth is not that it is universal but that it is absolute (W H Auden Quotes)
Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be (W H Auden Quotes)
Human beings are, necessarily, actors who...can be divided...into the sane who know they are acting and the mad who do not (W H Auden Quotes)
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh. (W H Auden Quotes)
Lost in a haunted wood, Children afraid of the night Who have never been happy or good (W H Auden Quotes)
Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist. (W H Auden Quotes)
Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one. (W H Auden Quotes)
In addition to English, at least one ancient language, probably Greek or Hebrew, and two modern languages would be required. (W H Auden Quotes)
I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-Second Street Uncertain and afraid As the clever hopes expire Of a low dishonest decade Waves of anger and fear Circulate over the bright And darkened lands of the earth, Obsessing our private lives The unmentiona (W H Auden Quotes)
Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate. (W H Auden Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Healing,’ Papa would tell me, ‘is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.’ (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)
It’s a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it. (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)
Drama began as the act of a whole community. Ideally, there would be no speculators. In practice, every member of the audience should feel like an understudy. (W H Auden Quotes)
Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods. (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)
The most exciting rhythms seem unexpected and complex, the most beautiful melodies simple and inevitable. (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)
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 Quotes)
For time is inches And the heart’s changes, Where ghost has haunted Lost and wanted (W H Auden Quotes)
The child unlucky in his little State, Some hearth where freedom is excluded, A hive whose honey is fear and worry, Feels calmer now and somehow assured of escape (W H Auden Quotes)
The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age. (W H Auden Quotes)
Ideally, government is the means by which all the individual wills are assured complete freedom of moral choice and at the same time prevented from ever clashing. (W H Auden Quotes)
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 Quotes)
God may reduce you on Judgment Day to tears of shame, reciting by heart the poems you would have written, had your life been good. (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)
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)
Even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot Where the dogs go on with their doggy life (W H Auden Quotes)