Quotes Tagged With :auden

Auden is an accomplished rhymer and Shakespeare is not.

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....

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

Hunger allows no choiceTo the citizen or the police

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

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....

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

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