"The glacier knocks in the cupboard, The desert……" — Wystan Hugh Auden
"The glacier knocks in the cupboard, The desert sighs in the bed, And the crack in the teacup opens A lane to the land of the dead."
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314 Quotes by Wystan Hugh Auden
Wystan Hugh Auden has 314 quotes on this site.
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I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and…
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We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.
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Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I…
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Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice…
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A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
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A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.
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Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.
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Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical…
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Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
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If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.
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All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.
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No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
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I'm sure most of us remember being a kid and you have all of this endless time where two weeks…
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I'm absolutely strict about it. When I land, I put my watch right, and I don't care what I feel…
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Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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A man can do a television interview and roll out of bed 15 minutes before; it's just not the same…
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I wake up every morning, look in the mirror and ask, 'Am I a sex symbol?' Then I go back…
— Antonio Banderas
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I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as…
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The heart of the jealous knows the best and most satisfying love, that of the other's bed, where the rival…
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Birth control that really works - every night before we go to bed we spend an hour with our kids.
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Remember how you used to be able to feel your bed breathing and the walls spinning when you were a…
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One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything everynight before you go to…
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This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed.
— Charles Baudelaire
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Early to bed and early to rise is a bad rule for anyone who wishes to become acquainted with our…
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