We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know

Quote by W H Auden

Topics: Solidarity Quotes

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

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

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...

No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are...

No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are...

Let us honor if we can the vertical man, though we value none but the...

Let us honor if we can the vertical man, though we value none but the...

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...

All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.

All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.

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...

Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say

Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say

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...

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...

A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.

A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.

No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most...

No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most...

Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.

Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.

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

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

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...

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...

You owe it to us all to get on with what you're good at.

You owe it to us all to get on with what you're good at.

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

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

Art is born of humiliation.

Art is born of humiliation.

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.