A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.

Quote by W H Auden

Topics: W H Auden Quotes

If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me

If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me

We are here on Earth to do good to others. What the others are here...

We are here on Earth to do good to others. What the others are here...

The word 'Intellectual' suggests straight away - A man who's untrue to his wife

The word 'Intellectual' suggests straight away - A man who's untrue to his wife

Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say

Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say

A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.

A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.

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

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

Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.

Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.

What people don't realize is that intimacy has its conventions as well as ordinary social...

What people don't realize is that intimacy has its conventions as well as ordinary social...

Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession

Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession

Even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot...

Even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot...

I know nothing, except what everyone knows if there when Graces dances, I should dance.

I know nothing, except what everyone knows if there when Graces dances, I should dance.

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

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

Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has...

Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has...

Men will pay large sums to whores for telling them they are not bores.

Men will pay large sums to whores for telling them they are not bores.

No hero is mortal till he dies.

No hero is mortal till he dies.

For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?

For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?

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

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

If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons...

If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons...

All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one...

All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one...

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...