Nature Quotes by W. H. Auden

11 Nature quotes by W. H. Auden

Auden’s verses often linger on the edge of a meadow or a stormy sea, capturing both the beauty and the melancholy of the world. In this collection of eleven, his lyrical precision invites you to see the familiar with fresh eyes.

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We are all here on earth to help others.

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Soft as the earth is mankind and both need to be altered.

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Human language is mythological and metaphorical by nature.

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Herds of reindeer move across Miles and miles of golden moss

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All good art is in the nature of a letter written to amuse a sick friend. Too much art, particularly in our…

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We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.

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'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'

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Who on earth invented the silly convention that it is boring or impolite to talk shop? Nothing is more interesting to listen…

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the child unlucky in his little State, Some hearth where freedom is excluded, A hive whose honey is fear and worry, Feels…

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“Looking up at the stars, I know quite well That, for all they care, I can go to hell, But on earth…

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If the most significant characteristic of man is the complex of biological needs he shares with all members of his species, then…

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

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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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