Quotes about W H Auden

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

#W H Auden

For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?

#W H Auden

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

#W H Auden

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

#W H Auden

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

#W H Auden

Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his...

#W H Auden

Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.

#W H Auden

Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to...

#W H Auden

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

#W H Auden

The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have...

#W H Auden

The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.

#W H Auden

Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.

#W H Auden