A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

Quote by W H Auden

Topics: W H Auden Quotes

When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who...

When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who...

Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is...

Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is...

Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.

Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.

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...

No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most...

No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most...

Let us honor if we can the vertical man, though we value none but the...

Let us honor if we can the vertical man, though we value none but the...

Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say

Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say

Now is the age of anxiety.

Now is the age of anxiety.

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 countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have...

The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have...

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

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

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

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

We must love one another or die.

We must love one another or die.

One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell.

One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell.

We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are...

We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are...

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...

You must go to bed with friends or whores, where money makes up the difference...

You must go to bed with friends or whores, where money makes up the difference...

Love is the only gold.

Love is the only gold.

If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.

If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.

We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to...

We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to...