Quotes by : W. H. Auden

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

Art is born of humiliation.

To be happy means to be free not from pain or fear but from care or anxiety.

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

The relation of faith between subject and object is unique in every case. Hundreds may believe but each....

Some books are undeservedly forgotten none are undeservedly remembered.

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

It is nonsense to speak of 'higher' and 'lower' pleasures. To a hungry man it is rightly more important....

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

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