451 Quotes by W.H. Auden

Intellectual disgrace Stares from every human face, And the seas of pity lie Locked and frozen in each eye.

Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy.

Money cannot buy the fuel of love but is excellent kindling.

We do not change as we grow up. The difference between the child and the adult is that the former doesn’t know who he is and the latter does.

Yet no one hears his own remarks as prose.

It takes little talent to see what lies under one’s nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.

If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.

Words have no word for words that are not true.

To choose what is difficult all one’s days, as if it were easy, that is faith.