Quotes about W H Auden

Let mortals beware of words For with words we lie Can speak peace When we...

#W H Auden

Art is born of humiliation.

#W H Auden

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual...

#W H Auden

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

#W H Auden

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

#W H Auden

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

#W H Auden

A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them....

#W H Auden

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

#W H Auden

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

#W H Auden

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

#W H Auden

A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.

#W H Auden

A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man...

#W H Auden