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

Quote by W H Auden

Topics: W H Auden Quotes

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.

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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.

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God...

May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God...

Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.

Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.

Healing, Papa would tell me, is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing...

Healing, Papa would tell me, is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing...

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

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

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

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

Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his...

Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his...

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...