W. H. Auden Quotes on Life (4 Quotes)
- When I try to imagine a faultless love; Or the life to come, what I hear is the murmur; Of underground streams, what I see is a limestone landscape.
(W. H. Auden)
- The masculine imagination lives in a state of perpetual revolt against the limitations of human life. In theological terms, one might say that all men, left to themselves, become gnostics.
(W. H. Auden)
- Poor Poe At first so forgotten that his grave went without a tomb-stone twenty-six years. . . today in danger of becoming the life study of a few professors.
(W. H. Auden)
- To the man-in-the-street, who, I'm sorry to say; Is a keen observer of life, The word Intellectual suggests straight away; A man who's untrue to his wife.
(W. H. Auden)
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