Quotes by : W. H. Auden

Music is the best means we have of digesting time.

If we really want to live we'd better start at once to try.

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

Man is a history-making creature who can neither repeat his past nor leave it behind.

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

We are all here on earth to help others what on earth the others are here for I don't know.

Nobody can honestly think of himself as a strong character because however successful he may be in overcoming....

No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.

In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a unique....

A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.