Their fate must always be the same as yours, To suffer the loss they were afraid of, yes, Holders of one position, wrong for years. (W. H. Auden)
Narcissus does not fall in love with his reflection because it is beautiful, but because it is his. If it were his beauty that enthralled him, he would be set free in a few years by its fading. (W. H. Auden)
You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared relation between two people. (W. H. Auden)
Our researchers into Public Opinion are content; That he held the proper opinions for the time of year; When there was peace, he was for peace when there was war, he went. (W. H. Auden)
The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living. (W. H. Auden)
Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud. (W. H. Auden)
In the nightmare of the dark All the dogs of Europe bark, And the living nations wait, Each sequestered in its hate. (W. H. Auden)
Men will pay large sums to whores for telling them they are not bores. (W. H. Auden)
No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games. (W. H. Auden)
Five minutes on even the nicest mountain; Is awfully long. (W. H. Auden)
America has always been a country of amateurs where the professional, that is to say, the man who claims authority as a member of an. (W. H. Auden)
Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead. (W. H. Auden)
Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another. (W. H. Auden)
Out of the air a voice without a face Proved by statistics that some cause was just. (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)