Now is the age of anxiety.

Quote by W H Auden

Topics: Age Quotes, Funny Quotes

A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.

A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.

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

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

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

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

All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one...

All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one...

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...

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...

In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be...

In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be...

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.

In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be...

In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be...

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

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

You must go to bed with friends or whores, where money makes up the difference...

You must go to bed with friends or whores, where money makes up the difference...

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...

Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.

Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.

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...

We all have these places where shy humiliations gambol on sunny afternoons.

We all have these places where shy humiliations gambol on sunny afternoons.

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...

Now is the age of anxiety.

Now is the age of anxiety.

Art is born of humiliation.

Art is born of humiliation.

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

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

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

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