451 Quotes by W.H. Auden

Precisely because we do not communicate by singing, a song can be out of place but not out of character; it is just as credible that a stupid person should sing beautifully as that a clever person should do so.

I and the public know What all schoolchildren learn, Those to whom evil is done Do evil in return.

Does God judge us by appearances? I Suspect that He does.

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

A poem is a verbal artifact which must be as skillfully and solidly constructed as a table or a motorcycle.

Earth, receive an honored guest; William Yeats is laid to rest. Let the Irish vessel lie Emptied of its poetry.

Money is the necessity that frees us from necessity.

History marches to the drum of a clear idea.

We must love one another or die.