Quotes by : W.H. Auden

The way to read a fairy tale is to throw yourself in.

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....

The slogan of Hell: Eat or be eaten. The slogan of Heaven: Eat and be eaten.

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

The enlightenment driven away,The habit-forming pain,Mismanagement and grief:We must suffer them all....

Without art, we should have no notion of the sacred; without science, we should always worship false....

I write because I love to play with language.

In any first-class work of art, you can find passages that in themselves are extremely boring, but try....

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