All W. H. Auden Quotes
Men will pay large sums to whores for telling them they are not bores.
W. H. Auden
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If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away.
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Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
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Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one.
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"Healing," Papa would tell me, "is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature."
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In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.
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Hemingway is terribly limited. His technique is good for short stories, for people who meet once in a bar very late at night, but do not enter into relations. But not for the novel.
W. H. Auden
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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.
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No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.
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In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a unique perspective on the world, a member of a class of one.
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Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.
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A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
W. H. Auden
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