W. H. Auden Quotes

A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.
W. H. Auden

We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.
W. H. Auden

Learn from your dreams what you lack.
W. H. Auden

We are here on Earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I don't know.
W. H. Auden

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
W. H. Auden

All that we are not stares back at what we are.
W. H. Auden

Now is the age of anxiety.
W. H. Auden

W. H. Auden Quotes
		If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away. W. H. Auden Vote on this Quote: Bad <---> Good
		Author Details: Type: Poet Quotes Category: English Poet Quotes Date of Birth: February 21, 1907 Date of Death: September 29, 1973 Nationality: English Amazon: W. H. Auden on Amazon	Related Authors: John Keats Alfred Lord Tennyson William Wordsworth Alexander Pope Robert Browning Elizabeth Barrett Browning John Milton Percy Bysshe Shelley
		Select W. H. Auden Quotations: A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us. W. H. Auden We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know. W. H. Auden Learn from your dreams what you lack. W. H. Auden We are here on Earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I don't know. W. H. Auden A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. W. H. Auden All that we are not stares back at what we are. W. H. Auden Now is the age of anxiety. W. H. Auden
Quote Keywords: Away, Gun, His, Horse, Lessons, Opera, Pay, Riding, Sheriff, Take, Time, Were, Wicked	Dictionary Links: Away, Gun, His, Horse, Opera, Pay, Riding, Sheriff, Take, Time, Were, Wicked	All W. H. Auden Quotations: A poet can write about a... A poet is a professional maker... A poet is, before anything else... A professor is someone who talks... A real book is not one... A tremendous number of people in... A verbal art like poetry is... All sins tend to be addictive... All that we are not stares... All works of art are commissioned... Almost all of our relationships begin... Among those whom I like or... Art is born of humiliation. Art is our chief means of... Before people complain of the obscurity... Between friends differences in taste or... Choice of attention - to pay attention... Death is the sound of distant... Every American poet feels that the... Every autobiography is concerned with two... Evil is unspectacular and always human... Fame often makes a writer vain... For who can bear to feel... Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals... God bless the USA, so large... Good can imagine Evil; but Evil... Healing," Papa would tell me, "is... Health is the state about which... Hemingway is terribly limited. His technique... History is, strictly speaking, the study... I don't get acting jobs because... I'll love you, dear, I'll love... If equal affection cannot be, let... If time were the wicked sheriff... In a world of prayer, we... In relation to a writer, most... In times of joy, all of... It is a sad fact about... It takes little talent to see... It's a sad fact about our... It's frightening how easy it is... Learn from your dreams what you lack. Like everything which is not the... May it not be that, just... Men will pay large sums to... Murder is commoner among cooks than... Murder is unique in that it... Music can be made anywhere, is... Music is the best means we... My face looks like a wedding... No good opera plot can be... No hero is mortal till he dies. No human being is innocent, but... No poet or novelist wishes he... Now is the age of anxiety. Of all possible subjects, travel is... One cannot walk through an assembly... Perhaps there is only one cardinal... Sob, heavy world Sob as you... Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are... Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought... The center that I cannot find... The class distinctions proper to a... The countenances of children, like those... The ear tends to be lazy... The words of a dead man... Thousands have lived without love, not... To save your world you asked... We all have these places where... We are all here on earth... We are here on Earth to... What the mass media offers is... When I am in the company... When I find myself in the... You know there are no secrets... You owe it to us all...

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