Quotes Tagged With :auden

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

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

Hunger allows no choiceTo the citizen or the police

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

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....

Maybe if I'd agreed to do the debutante thing like she wanted. Or taken up pageants instead of riding....

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

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

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