451 Quotes by W.H. Auden

The identification of fantasy is always an attempt to avoid one’s own suffering: the identification of art is the sharing in the suffering of another.

There is no love; There are only the various envies, all of them sad.

All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.

My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.

Sincerity is technique.

See without looking, hear without listening, breathe without asking.

No being can make another one happy.

The closest modern equivalent to the Homeric hero is the ace fighter pilot.

Dance, dance, dance till you drop.