It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it. In England, one feels all the social restraints holding one back. But here, anything can happen.

Quote by W H Auden

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A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it...

A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it...

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...

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

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...

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

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

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 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...

No hero is immortal till he dies

No hero is immortal till he dies

Men make the mistake of thinking that because women can't see the sense in violence,...

Men make the mistake of thinking that because women can't see the sense in violence,...

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

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

When the Sex War ended with the slaughter of the Grandmothers, / They found a...

When the Sex War ended with the slaughter of the Grandmothers, / They found a...

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.

Now is the age of anxiety.

Now is the age of anxiety.

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

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

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....

Now is the age of anxiety.

Now is the age of anxiety.

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

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

For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?

For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?

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...

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

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