Art is born of humiliation.

Quote by W H Auden

Topics: W H Auden Quotes

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

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

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...

It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to...

It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to...

Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

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...

Let mortals beware of words For with words we lie Can speak peace When we...

Let mortals beware of words For with words we lie Can speak peace When we...

A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them....

A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them....

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

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

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...

Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to...

Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to...

Now is the age of anxiety.

Now is the age of anxiety.

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...

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...

The image of myself which I try to create in my own mind in order...

The image of myself which I try to create in my own mind in order...

He was my North, my South, my East and West.

He was my North, my South, my East and West.

Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say

Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say

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...

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

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

Maybe this is why so many serial killers work in pairs. It's nice not to...

Maybe this is why so many serial killers work in pairs. It's nice not to...

Shotgunning anybody in this room would be the moral equivalent of killing a car, a...

Shotgunning anybody in this room would be the moral equivalent of killing a car, a...