We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.

Quote by W H Auden

Topics: W H Auden Quotes

In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of...

In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of...

My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.

My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.

All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.

All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.

Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.

Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual...

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual...

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

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

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

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

I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-Second Street Uncertain and afraid As the...

I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-Second Street Uncertain and afraid As the...

In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be...

In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be...

Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out...

Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out...

You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people...

You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people...

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among...

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among...

Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences...

Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences...

Hemingway is terribly limited. His technique is good for short stories, for people who meet...

Hemingway is terribly limited. His technique is good for short stories, for people who meet...

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

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

I don't get acting jobs because of my looks.

I don't get acting jobs because of my looks.

Now is the age of anxiety.

Now is the age of anxiety.

No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are...

No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are...

All that we are not stares back at what we are.

All that we are not stares back at what we are.

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.