451 Quotes by W.H. Auden

We must love one another or die

If equal affection cannot be,Let the more loving one be me.

Every man carries with him through life a mirror, as unique and impossible to get rid of as his shadow.

We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and see our illusions die.

And each in the cell of himself is almost convinced of his freedom.

Small tyrants, threatened by big,sincerely believethey love liberty.

There must always be two kinds of art: escape-art, for man needs escape as he needs food and deep sleep, and parable-art, that art which shall teach man to unlearn hatred and learn love.

Poetry might be defined as the clear expression of mixed feelings.

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.