W H Auden

Men make the mistake of thinking that because women can't see the sense in violence, they must be passive creatures. It's just…

— W H Auden

He was my North, my South, my East and West.

— W H Auden

When the Sex War ended with the slaughter of the Grandmothers, / They found a bachelor's baby suffocating under them; / Somebody…

— W H Auden

You owe it to us all to get on with what you're good at.

— W H Auden

“Though a work of literature can be read in a number of ways, this number is finite and can be arranged in…

— W H Auden

What people don't realize is that intimacy has its conventions as well as ordinary social intercourse. There are three cardinal rules --…

— W H Auden

Even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot Where the dogs go on with their…

— W H Auden

The word 'Intellectual' suggests straight away - A man who's untrue to his wife

— W H Auden

I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-Second Street Uncertain and afraid As the clever hopes expire Of a low dishonest…

— W H Auden

Let mortals beware of words For with words we lie Can speak peace When we mean war But song is true Let…

— W H Auden

I know nothing, except what everyone knows if there when Graces dances, I should dance.

— W H Auden

No hero is immortal till he dies

— W H Auden