All Wystan Hugh Auden Quotes
- I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the… Africa
- We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know. All
- Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make… Admire
- Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the… Accept
- A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. Anything Else
- A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep. Education
- Thousands have lived without love, not one without water. Inspirational
- Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when… All
- Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table. Always Human
- If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me. Affection
- All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation. Addiction
- No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible. Feeling
- The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient,… Bored
- 'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.' Art
- In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag. All
- History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology. Answers
- A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us. Book
- Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality. Corny
- Music is the best means we have of digesting time. Best
- Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic. Death
- If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away. Gun
- We all have these places where shy humiliations gambol on sunny afternoons. Afternoon
- Art is born of humiliation. Art
- It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can… Art
- It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ. Deal