457 Quotes by W. H. Auden

A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.

The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.

God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich.

To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?

Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.

It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.

No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.

When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes.

It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.