Quotes by 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

It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more...

#W H Auden

In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.

#W H Auden

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

#W H Auden

In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of...

#W H Auden

If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons...

#W H Auden

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

#W H Auden

I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river...

#W H Auden