457 Quotes by W. H. Auden

The sky is darkening like a stain Something is going to fall like rain And it won't be flowers

Like love we don't know where or why Like love we cant compel or fly Like Love we often weep Like Love we seldom keep

Happy the hare at morning, for she cannot read The hunter's waking thoughts.

Drama is based on the Mistake.

Laziness acknowledges the relation of the present to the past but ignores its relation to the future; impatience acknowledge its relation to the future but ignores its relation to the past; neither the lazy nor the impatient man, that is, accepts the present instant in its full reality and so cannot love his neighbour completely.

I will love you forever" swears the poet. I find this easy to swear too. "I will love you at 4:15 pm next Tuesday" - Is that still as easy?

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate

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

History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.