W. H. Auden Quotes

W. H. Auden Quotes

W. H. Auden Quotes

Consider the following quotes by W. H. Auden:

"Evil is unspectacular and always human,And shares our bed and eats at our own table."

"False enchantment can last a lifetime."

"A poet's hope: to be,like some valley cheese,local, but prized elsewhere."

"Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh."

"No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible."

"Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered."

"One cannot review a bad book without showing off."

"Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest."

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