“Part came from Lane, and part from D.H. Lawrence; Gide, though I didn't know it then, gave part. They taught me to… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
“Lay your sleeping head, my love, Human on my faithless arm; Time and fevers burn away Individual beauty from Thoughtful children, and… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
“Our hunting fathers told the story Of the sadness of the creatures, Pitied the limits and the lack Set in their finished… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
“As I walked out one evening, Walking down Bristol Street, The crowds upon the pavement Were fields of harvest wheat. And down… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
“When I try to imagine a faultless love Or the life to come, what I hear is the murmur Of underground streams,… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
“My second thoughts condemn And wonder how I dare To look you in the eye. What right have I to swear Even… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
“How much must be forgotten out of love, How much must be forgiven, even love.” — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
“For the error bred in the bone of each woman and each man craves what it cannot have, not universal love but… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
“ Funeral Blues Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone, Silence the… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
“Love requires an Object But this varies so much Almost, I imagine anything will do: When I was a child I Loved… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
“Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
“He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and my Sunday rest, My noon, my midnight, my… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
“Narcissus does not fall in love with his reflection because it is beautiful but because it is his . If it were… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
“What mad Nijinsky wrote/ About Diaghilev/ Is true of the normal heart;/ For the error bred in the bone/ Of each woman… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
“Part came from Lane, and part from D.H. Lawrence; Gide, though I didn't know it then, gave part. They taught me to express my… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
“As his wife, Emilia must know Iago better than anybody else. She does not know, any more than the others, that he is malevolent,… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
“A child's reading is guided by pleasure, but his pleasure is undifferentiated; he cannot distinguish, for example, between aesthetic pleasure and the pleasures of… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
“No poet or novelist wishes he was the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive,… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
“Human "nature" is a nature continually in quest of itself, obliged at every moment to transcend what it was a moment before.” — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
“Cassio is a ladies’ man, that is to say, a man who feels most at home in feminine company where his looks and good… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
“Lay your sleeping head, my love, Human on my faithless arm; Time and fevers burn away Individual beauty from Thoughtful children, and the grave… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
“In any first-class work of art, you can find passages that in themselves are extremely boring, but try to cut them out, as they… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
“For a desert island, one would choose a good dictionary rather than the greatest literary masterpiece imaginable, for, in relation to its readers, a… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
“Our hunting fathers told the story Of the sadness of the creatures, Pitied the limits and the lack Set in their finished features; Saw… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
