Quotes by : W. H. Auden

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

The ear tends to be lazy craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected the eye on the other....

Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and....

Let us humour if we can The vertical man Though we value none But the horizontal one.

What the mass media offer is not popular art but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like....

It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his....

My poetry doesn't change from place to place - it changes with the years. It's very important to be one's....

When we do evil We and our victims Are equally bewildered.

Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of....