"The hermit's carnal ecstasy." — Wystan Hugh Auden

"The hermit's carnal ecstasy."

— Wystan Hugh Auden

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314 Quotes by Wystan Hugh Auden

Wystan Hugh Auden has 314 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and…
We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I…
Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice…
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.
Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.
Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical…
Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.
All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.
No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.

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For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine. — Samuel Butler
Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become… — Thomas Aquinas
When the saint ceases to seek after holiness, purity, righteousness, truth; when he ceases to pray, stops reading the Word… — Smith Wigglesworth
The tenets of [the Christian life] seem paradoxes to carnal men; as first, that a Christian is the only freeman,… — Richard Sibbes
Animals are like humans, only more openly carnal and sexual, more openly and therefore more disarmingly absurd. — Yi-Fu Tuan
Naturally, men are prone to spin themselves a web of opinions out of their own brain, and to have a… — Richard Baxter
I have lived a carnal life. My view of life is 'If you're going to miss Heaven, why miss it… — Sam Kinison
God may allow His servant to succeed when He has disciplined him to a point where he does not need… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
The carnal person fears man, not God. The strong Christian fears God, not man. The weak Christian fears man too… — John Flavel
It is not the distance of the earth from the sun, nor the sun's withdrawing itself, that makes a dark… — John Owen
Many girls want to be carnal with me because I'm such a premium dancer. — Unknown Author
The genuine music lover may accept the carnal husk of opera to get at the kernel of actual music within,… — H. L. Mencken

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