Beauty Quote by W.H. Auden

“Part came from Lane, and part from D.H. Lawrence; Gide, though I didn't know it then, gave part. They taught me to express my…

— W.H. Auden

“As his wife, Emilia must know Iago better than anybody else. She does not know, any more than the others, that he is malevolent,…

— W.H. Auden

“A child's reading is guided by pleasure, but his pleasure is undifferentiated; he cannot distinguish, for example, between aesthetic pleasure and the pleasures of…

— W.H. Auden

“No poet or novelist wishes he was the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive,…

— W.H. Auden

“Human "nature" is a nature continually in quest of itself, obliged at every moment to transcend what it was a moment before.”

— W.H. Auden

“Cassio is a ladies’ man, that is to say, a man who feels most at home in feminine company where his looks and good…

— W.H. Auden

“In any first-class work of art, you can find passages that in themselves are extremely boring, but try to cut them out, as they…

— W.H. Auden

“Healing is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.”

— W.H. Auden

“For a desert island, one would choose a good dictionary rather than the greatest literary masterpiece imaginable, for, in relation to its readers, a…

— W.H. Auden

“Sorry, my dear, one mustn't be bohemian!”

— W.H. Auden

“Our hunting fathers told the story Of the sadness of the creatures, Pitied the limits and the lack Set in their finished features; Saw…

— W.H. Auden

“After Portia has trapped Shylock through his own insistence upon the letter of the law of Contract, she produces another law by which any…

— W.H. Auden