Quotes by : W.H. Auden

He was my North, my South, my East and West,My working week and my Sunday rest,My noon, my midnight,....

Poetry makes nothing happen.

The Ogre does what ogres can,Deeds quite impossible for Man,But one prize is beyond his reach:The Ogre....

Every poet has his dream reader: mine keeps a look out for curious prosodic fauna like bacchics and choriambs.....

What living occasion can,Be just to the absent?

We are, for all our polish, of littlestature, and, as human lives,compared with authentic martyrs,of....

In the nightmare of the darkAll the dogs of Europe bark,And the living nations wait,Each sequestered....

The most exciting rhythms seem unexpected and complex, the most beautiful melodies simple and inevitable.....

Always the following wind of historyOf others' wisdom makes a buoyant airTill we come suddenly on pockets....

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