457 Quotes by W. H. Auden

Lost in a haunted wood, Children afraid of the night Who have never been happy or good.

The most difficult problem in personal knowledge, whether of oneself or of others, is the problem of guessing when to think as a historian and when to think as an anthropologist.

Yet no one hears his own remarks as prose.

For time is inches And the heart's changes, Where ghost has haunted Lost and wanted.

Those who hate to go to bed fear death; those who hate to get up fear life.

The habit-forming pain, Mismanagement and grief: We must suffer them all again.

Alone, alone, about the dreadful wood / Of conscious evil runs a lost mankind, / Dreading to find its Father.

Long ago the accusations had begun, And suddenly knew by whom it had been judged

God may reduce you on Judgment Day to tears of shame, reciting by heart the poems you would have written, had your life been good.