457 Quotes by W. H. Auden

There are good books which are only for adults.There are no good books which are only for children.

The desires of the heart are as crooked as corkscrews.

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.

Truth, like love and sleep, resents approaches that are too intense.

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.

Routine, in an intelligent man, is a sign of ambition.

In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.

I have never, I think, wanted to 'belong' to a group whose interests were not mine, nor have I resented exclusion. Why should thet accept me? All I have ever asked is that others should go their way and let me go mine.

The mercury sank in the mouth of the dying day.