105 Quotations by W. H. Auden
- 1. A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gourmets, some gourmands, and a good ...
- 2. A doctor, like anyone else who has to deal with human beings, each of them unique, cannot be a scien ...
- 3. A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.
- 4. A man has his distinctive personal scent which his wife, his children and his dog can recognize. A c ...
- 5. A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.
- 6. A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- 7. A poet's hope: to be,
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- 8. A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep.
- 9. A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.
- 10. A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich ma ...
- 11. A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.
- 12. Accurate scholarship can
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- 13. Acts of injustice done
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- 14. All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.
- 15. All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will ...
- 16. Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a m ...
- 17. America has always been a country of amateurs where the professional, that is to say, the man who cl ...
- 18. Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I ...
- 19. Anyone who has a child today should train him to be either a physicist or a ballet dancer. Then he'l ...
- 20. As a poet there is only one political duty, and that is to defend one's language against corruption. ...
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