Quotes by : W.H. Auden

I will love you forever" swears the poet. I find this easy to swear too. "I will love you at 4:15 pm....

Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences....

Say this city has ten million souls,Some are living in mansions, some are living in holes:Yet there’s....

In the prison of his daysTeach the free man how to praise

To make one, there must be two.

The More Loving OneLooking up at the stars, I know quite wellThat, for all they care, I can go to hell,But....

Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the....

Some thirty inches from my noseThe frontier of my Person goes,And all the untilled air betweenIs private....

Soft as the earth is mankind and both need to be altered.

A child's reading is guided by pleasure, but his pleasure is undifferentiated; he cannot distinguish,....