Quotes
Quotes - Auden
What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.
The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar, and is shocked by the unexpected: the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.
A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.
Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.
Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.
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.
In those whom I like, I can find no common denominator; in those whom I love I can: they all make me laugh. -W. H. Auden.
Among those whom I like, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
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. Mother Teresa -W. H. Auden.
He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and Sunday rest, My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song; I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong.
Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable.
Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.
Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.
All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.
It takes little talent to see clearly what lies under one's nose, a good deal of it to know in which direction to point that organ.
A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep.
