Quotes Tagged With :auden

John and I noticed that whenever we talked about our children Wystan reached for his cats.

The Auden/Kallman relationship had this to be said for it: It affirmed that it's better to be blatant....

I don't know," I said. "What else did you do for your first eighteen years?""Like I said," he said as....

It was so risky and so scary, and yet at the same time, so beautiful. Maybe the truth was, it shouldn't....

There are good books which are only for adults.There are no good books which are only for children.

In short, it became possible - never easy, but possible - in the poet Auden's phrase to find the mortal....

The seasonal urge is strong in poets. Milton wrote chiefly in winter. Keats looked for spring to wake....

Auden is an accomplished rhymer and Shakespeare is not.

My second thoughts condemnAnd wonder how I dareTo look you in the eye.What right have I to swearEven....

Why should I even bother? What's the point, really?"He thought for a moment. "Who says there has to be....