451 Quotes by W.H. Auden

Over the tea-cups and in the square the tongue has its desire; Still waters run deep, my dear, there’s never smoke without fire.

Each in the cell of himself is almost convinced of his freedom.

We honor founders of these starving cities, Whose honor is the image of our sorrow.

Soft as the earth is mankind and both need to be altered.

Be subtle, various, ornamental, clever, And do not listen to those critics ever Whose crude provincial gullets crave in books Plain cooking made still plainer by plain cooks.

A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

All the rest is silence On the other side of the wall, And the silence ripeness, And the ripeness all.