Quote by W. H. Auden Download Open image “All that we are not stares back at what we are.” — W. H. Auden ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare
continually we look at things about us without seeing more than a very little of what is there. — Amy Carmichael Copy Share Image
What we see in what we look at, depends mainly on what we look for. — Jeromy Shingongo Copy Share Image
We are so focused on the material aspects of life that we lose sight of everything else. — Wally Amos Copy Share Image
We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
We usually see only the things we are looking for- so much so that we sometimes see them where they are not. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Why doesn't the United States take over the monarchy and unite with England? England does have important assets. Naturally the longer you wait, the… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
The commonest ivory tower is that of the average man, the state of passivity towards experience. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Harrow the house of the dead; look shining at New styles of architecture, a change of heart. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Most poetry is the utterance of a man in some state of passion, love, joy, grief, rage, etc., and no doubt this is as… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Men will pay large sums to whores for telling them they are not bores. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
If age, which is certainly Just as wicked as youth, look any wiser, It is only that youth is still able to believe It… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
I and the public know What all schoolchildren learn, Those to whom evil is done Do evil in return. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
How happy the lot of the mathematician. He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that no colleague or… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image