Quotes Tagged With :auden

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

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....

What do you think of when you think of mourning?' Jenny asks.The question snaps me back to attention.....

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

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

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

Mad Ireland hurt you into poetry.

Auden is an accomplished rhymer and Shakespeare is not.

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