Looks Quotes by W. H. Auden

11 Looks quotes by W. H. Auden

W. H. Auden’s musings on looks are steeped in poetic precision, turning a simple glance into a moment of contemplation. These eleven brief excerpts give a concise taste of his elegant, measured voice.

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My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.

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Look if you like, but you will have to leap.

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I don't get acting jobs because of my looks.

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When one looks into the window of a store which sells devotional art objects, one can't help wishing the iconoclasts had won.

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The stars are dead. The animals will not look: We are left alone with our day, and the time is short, and…

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“Every poet has his dream reader: mine keeps a look out for curious prosodic fauna like bacchics and choriambs.”

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Harrow the house of the dead; look shining at New styles of architecture, a change of heart.

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Behind the corpse in the reservoir, behind the ghost on the links, Behind the lady who dances and the man who madly…

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But he would have us most of all remember to be enthusiastic over the night. Not only for the sense of wonder…

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If age, which is certainly Just as wicked as youth, look any wiser, It is only that youth is still able to…

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You need not see what someone is doing to know if it is his vocation, you have only to watch his eyes:…

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Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible.

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The commonest ivory tower is that of the average man, the state of passivity towards experience.

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Most poetry is the utterance of a man in some state of passion, love, joy, grief, rage, etc., and no doubt this is as…

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Men will pay large sums to whores for telling them they are not bores.

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If age, which is certainly Just as wicked as youth, look any wiser, It is only that youth is still able to believe It…

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“Those to whom evil is done, do evil in return”

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I and the public know What all schoolchildren learn, Those to whom evil is done Do evil in return.

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One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell.

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How happy the lot of the mathematician. He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that no colleague or…

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Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.

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