No hero is immortal till he dies

Quote by W H Auden

Topics: Heroism Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.

Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.

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...

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...

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...

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.

Even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot...

Even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot...

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...

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...

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...

Music is the best means we have of digesting time.

Music is the best means we have of digesting time.

Drama is based on the Mistake. I think someone is my friend when he really...

Drama is based on the Mistake. I think someone is my friend when he really...

For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?

For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?

The belief that politics can be scientific must inevitably produce tyrannies. Politics cannot be a...

The belief that politics can be scientific must inevitably produce tyrannies. Politics cannot be a...

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

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

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

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

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...