Auden Quote by George Orwell

“If one faces facts one must admit that nearly everything describable as Socialist literature is dull, tasteless, and bad”

— George Orwell

“In all the socialist literature I had read, there was hardly a chapter devoted to the creation of wealth, the problem of getting people…

— David Horowitz

Imperialism as he [Kipling] sees it is a sort of forcible evangelising.

— George Orwell

During five literary generations every enlightened person had despised him, and at the end of that time nine-tenths of those enlightened persons are forgotten…

— George Orwell

In my opinion nothing has contributed more to the corruption of the original idea of socialism as the belief that Russia is a socialist…

— George Orwell

The only thing for which we can combine is the underlying ideal of Socialism; justice and liberty. But it is hardly strong enough to…

— George Orwell

The typical socialist... a prim little man with a white-collar job, usually a secret teetotaler and often with vegetarian leanings.

— George Orwell

“On the one hand you have the warm-hearted unthinking Socialist, the typical working-class Socialist, who only wants to abolish poverty and does not always…

— George Orwell

The most conspicuous thing about suffering is, as W.H. Auden once observed, its banality. The day is green, the sun is shinging, someone is…

— Michael Jackson

“Almost, I thought. Out loud I said, "Just because we don't see eye to eye on everything doesn't mean we can't be close. Auden”

— Sarah Dessen

You searched through all my poets, From Sappho through to Auden, I saw the book fall from your hands, As you slowly died of…

— Nick Cave

Auden, who asked two things of an imagined world-that it be somehow like ours and somehow unlike-would be Ben Marcus's ideal reader, yet even…

— Richard Howard

One way or another, all the poets of the thirties and forties reacted to Auden, either by rejecting him or trying to absorb him.

— Clive James

“As Auden is believed to have said, no poem saved a single Jew from the gas chambers. Never mind. Write the poems anyway. Play…

— Philip Pullman

Books should confuse. Literature abhors the typical. Literature flows to the particular, the mundane, the greasiness of paper, the taste of warm beer, the…

— Richard Rodriguez