451 Quotes by W.H. Auden

The most exciting rhythms seem unexpected and complex, the most beautiful melodies simple and inevitable.

No poet or novelist wishes he was the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and quite a number believe their wish has been granted.

What living occasion can,Be just to the absent?

The wolves will get you if the moths won't.

Any society is in danger of dismissing the virtue of another society because of its vices, and a democracy is always in danger of not paying enough attention to manners and forms.

Evil is unspectacular and always human,And shares our bed and eats at our own table ....

All we are not stares back at what we are.

The religious definition of truth is not that it is universal but that it is absolute.

And maps can really point to placesWhere life is evil now:Nanking. Dachau.