Quotes by : W. H. Auden

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

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

Choice of attention-to pay attention to this and ignore that-is to the inner life what choice of action....

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

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

Any marriage happy or unhappy is infinitely more interesting and significant than any romance however....

Learn from your dreams what you lack.

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

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

Choice of attention to pay attention to this and ignore that is to the inner life what choice of action....