451 Quotes by W.H. Auden

It’s frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it. In England, one feels all the social restraints holding one back. But here, anything can happen.

Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.

Let us honor if we can the vertical man, though we value none but the horizontal one.

Look if you like, but you will have to leap.

The poet marries the language, and out of this marriage the poem is born.

Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible.

If it form the one landscape that we the inconstant ones Are consistently homesick for, this is chiefly Because it dissolves in water.

By mourning tongues The death of the poet was kept from his poems.

Clear, unscaleable ahead, Rise the mountains of instead From whose cold, cascading streams None may drink except in dreams.