Men make the mistake of thinking that because women can't see the sense in violence, they must be passive creatures. It's just not true. In one important way, at least, men are the passive sex. Given a choice, they will… — W H Auden Copy Share Image
The word 'Intellectual' suggests straight away - A man who's untrue to his wife — W H Auden Copy Share Image
Men make the mistake of thinking that because women can't see the sense in violence, they must be passive creatures. It's just not true.… — W H Auden Copy Share Image
When the Sex War ended with the slaughter of the Grandmothers, / They found a bachelor's baby suffocating under them; / Somebody called him… — W H Auden Copy Share Image
“Though a work of literature can be read in a number of ways, this number is finite and can be arranged in a hierarchical order; some readings are obviously “truer” than others, some doubtful, some obviously false, and some, like reading a novel backwards, absurd. That is why, for a desert island, one would choose a good dictionary rather than… — W H Auden Copy Share
What people don't realize is that intimacy has its conventions as well as ordinary social intercourse. There are three cardinal rules -- don't take… — W H Auden Copy Share Image
Even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot Where the dogs go on with their doggy life — W H Auden Copy Share Image
The word 'Intellectual' suggests straight away - A man who's untrue to his wife — W H Auden Copy Share Image
I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-Second Street Uncertain and afraid As the clever hopes expire Of a low dishonest decade: Waves of anger and fear Circulate over the bright And darkened lands of the earth, Obsessing our private lives; The unmentiona — W H Auden Copy Share
Let mortals beware of words For with words we lie Can speak peace When we mean war But song is true Let music for… — W H Auden Copy Share Image
I know nothing, except what everyone knows if there when Graces dances, I should dance. — W H Auden Copy Share Image
