Quotes by W H Auden

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

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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

Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy.

#W H Auden

Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out...

#W H Auden

One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell.

#W H Auden

Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is...

#W H Auden

No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called...

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

#W H Auden

You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people...

#W H Auden