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W. H. Auden

A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.

W. H. Auden

A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

W. H. Auden

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

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

Any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting and significant than any romance, however passionate.

W. H. Auden

Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.

W. H. Auden

Choice of attention, to pay attention to this and ignore that, is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer.

W. H. Auden

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.

W. H. Auden

Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.

W. H. Auden

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

W. H. Auden

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

W. H. Auden

Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say.

W. H. Auden

History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.

W. H. Auden

If we really want to live, we'd better start at once to try.

W. H. Auden

I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street.

W. H. Auden

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

Learn from your dreams what you lack.

W. H. Auden

Let us humour if we can The vertical man Though we value none But the horizontal one.

W. H. Auden

Man is a history-making creature who can neither repeat his past nor leave it behind.

W. H. Auden

May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that 'faith' is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?

W. H. Auden

Music is the best means we have of digesting time.

W. H. Auden

Nobody can honestly think of himself as a strong character because, however successful he may be in overcoming them, he is necessarily aware of the doubts and temptations that accompany every important choice.

W. H. Auden

Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.

W. H. Auden

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

W. H. Auden

The relation of faith between subject and object is unique in every case. Hundreds may believe, but each has to believe by himself.

Showing 1 to 25 of 30 results

W. H. Auden

A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.

W. H. Auden

A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

W. H. Auden

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

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

Any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting and significant than any romance, however passionate.

W. H. Auden

Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.

W. H. Auden

Choice of attention, to pay attention to this and ignore that, is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer.

W. H. Auden

Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.

W. H. Auden

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

W. H. Auden

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

W. H. Auden

Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say.

W. H. Auden

History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.

W. H. Auden

If we really want to live, we'd better start at once to try.

W. H. Auden

I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street.

W. H. Auden

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

Learn from your dreams what you lack.

W. H. Auden

Let us humour if we can The vertical man Though we value none But the horizontal one.

W. H. Auden

Man is a history-making creature who can neither repeat his past nor leave it behind.

W. H. Auden

Music is the best means we have of digesting time.

W. H. Auden

Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.

W. H. Auden

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

W. H. Auden

The relation of faith between subject and object is unique in every case. Hundreds may believe, but each has to believe by himself.

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