105 Quotations by W. H. Auden
- 21. Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their trivial ...

- 22. Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of ...

- 23. Criticism should be a casual conversation.

- 24. Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.

- 25. Desire, even in its wildest tantrums, can neither persuade me it is love nor stop me from wishing it ...

- 26. Dogmatic theological statements are neither logical propositions nor poetic utterances. They are "sh ...

- 27. Drama is based on the Mistake. I think someone is my friend when he really is my enemy, that I am fr ...

- 28. Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, th ...

- 29. Every European visitor to the United States is struck by the comparative rarity of what he would cal ...

- 30. Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.

- 31. False enchantment can last a lifetime.

- 32. Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.

- 33. Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to ...

- 34. God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich.

- 35. God is Love, we are taught as children to believe. But when we first begin to get some inkling of ho ...

- 36. Healing, Papa would tell me, "is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature."

- 37. How happy the lot of the mathematician! He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so hig ...

- 38. I cannot accept the doctrine that in poetry there is a "suspension of belief." A poet must never mak ...

- 39. If music in general is an imitation of history, opera in particular is an imitation of human willful ...

- 40. If the most significant characteristic of man is the complex of biological needs he shares with all ...

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