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

Quote by W H Auden

Topics: W H Auden Quotes

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...

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

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

Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.

Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.

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

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

What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to...

What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to...

God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich.

God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich.

Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.

Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among...

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.

A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.

A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.

A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.

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...

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...

Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own...

Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own...

To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he...

To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he...