It's better to say, 'I'm suffering,' than to say, 'This landscape is ugly. — W. H. Auden Criticism Copy Share Image
We honor founders of these starving cities, Whose honor is the image of our sorrow. — W. H. Auden Cities Copy Share Image
If there are any souls in hell, it is because that is where they insist on being. — W. H. Auden Hell Copy Share Image
You must go to bed with friends or whores, where money makes up the difference in beauty or desire. — W. H. Auden Beauty Copy Share Image
I'm always amazed at the American practice of allowing one party to a homosexual act to remain passive--it's so undemocratic. Sexmust be… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
As a poet, there is only one political duty, and that is to defend one's language from corruption. — W. H. Auden Corruption Copy Share Image
I don't think the mystical experience can be verbalized. When the ego disappears, so does power over language. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
No person can be a great leader unless he takes genuine joy in the successes of those under him. — W. H. Auden Empowering others Copy Share Image
To have a sense of sin means to feel guilty at there being an ethical choice to make, a guilt which, however… — W. H. Auden Choices Copy Share Image
Alone, alone, about the dreadful wood / Of conscious evil runs a lost mankind, / Dreading to find its Father. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
The relation of faith between subject and object is unique in every case. Hundreds may believe, but each has to believe by… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
It is axiomatic that we should all think of ourselves as being more sensitive than other people because, when we are insensitive… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Marriage is rarely bliss But, surely it would be worse As particles to pelt At thousands of miles per sec About a… — W. H. Auden Bliss Copy Share Image
No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only… — W. H. Auden Alive Copy Share Image
It's impossible to represent a saint [in Art]. It becomes boring. Perhaps because he is, like the Saturday Evening Post people, inthe… — W. H. Auden Art Copy Share Image
It's a pity I am so impatient and careless, as any ordinary person could learn all the techniques of photography in a… — W. H. Auden Art Copy Share Image
Accurate scholarship can unearth the whole offence from luther untill noe that has driven a culture mad. From what occured at linz… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim… — W. H. Auden Atonement Copy Share Image
Precisely because we do not communicate by singing, a song can be out of place but not out of character; it is… — W. H. Auden Character Copy Share Image
Lost in a haunted wood, Children afraid of the night Who have never been happy or good. — W. H. Auden Children Copy Share Image
In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag. — W. H. Auden Joy Copy Share Image
Those who hate to go to bed fear death; those who hate to get up fear life. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation. — W. H. Auden Addiction Copy Share Image
By mourning tongues The death of the poet was kept from his poems. — W. H. Auden Death Copy Share Image
Private faces in public places Are wiser and nicer Than public faces in private places. — W. H. Auden Faces Copy Share Image
Without communication with the dead, a fully human life is not possible. — W. H. Auden Communication Copy Share Image
Get up very early and get going at once. In fact, work first and wash afterwards. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Human language is mythological and metaphorical by nature. — W. H. Auden Human language Copy Share Image
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