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

Quote by W H Auden

Topics: W H Auden Quotes

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.

A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man...

A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man...

Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good.

Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good.

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...

Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy.

Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy.

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...

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.

The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.

The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.

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

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...

For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?

For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?

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...

No hero is mortal till he dies.

No hero is mortal till he dies.

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...

Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.

Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.

It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too...

It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too...

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.

I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river...

I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river...

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

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