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W. H. Auden Quotes and Quotations
 Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered. - W. H. Auden | Books and Reading Quotes  Let us humour if we can The vertical man Though we value none But the horizontal one. - W. H. Auden | Civilization Quotes What the mass media offer is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish. - W. H. Auden | Enjoyment and Pleasure Quotes Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do. - W. H. Auden | Genius Quotes We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know. - W. H. Auden | Goodness and Giving Quotes It is nonsense to speak of 'higher' and 'lower' pleasures. To a hungry man it is, rightly, more important that he eat than that he philosophize. - W. H. Auden | Happiness Quotes Man is a history-making creature who can neither repeat his past nor leave it behind. - W. H. Auden | History and Historians Quotes Almost all of our relationships begin, and most of them continue, as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods. - W. H. Auden | Human Relations Quotes Any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting and significant than any romance, however passionate. - W. H. Auden | Marriage Quotes My poetry doesn't change from place to place - it changes with the years. It's very important to be one's age. You get ideas you have to turn down - 'I'm sorry, no longer'; 'I'm sorry, not yet.' - W. H. Auden | Maturity Quotes The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition. - W. H. Auden | Observation Quotes Nobody can honestly think of himself as a strong character because, however successful he may be in overcoming them, he is necessarily aware of the doubts and temptations that accompany every important choice. - W. H. Auden | Self and Self-Knowledge Quotes About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters; How well they understood Its human position; how it takes place While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along. - W. H. Auden | Sorrow Quotes When we do evil, We and our victims Are equally bewildered. - W. H. Auden | Wickedness and Cruelty Quotes It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practising it. - W. H. Auden | Writers and Writing Quotes To be happy means to be free, not from pain or fear, but from care or anxiety. - W. H. Auden | Happiness Quotes The relation of faith between subject and object is unique in every case. Hundreds may believe, but each has to believe by himself. - W. H. Auden | Faith and Unity Quotes Choice of attention-to pay attention to this and ignore that-is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences. - W. H. Auden | Self-Reliance Quotes Choice of attention ... is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be. - W. H. Auden | Decisions Quotes If we really want to live, we'd better start at once to try. - W. H. Auden | Getting Going Quotes Choice of attention, to pay attention to this and ignore that, is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. - W. H. Auden | Concentration Quotes Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh. - W. H. Auden | Life Quotes Cathedrals, Luxury liners laden with souls, Holding to the east their hulls of stone. - W. H. Auden | Church Quotes 
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