451 Quotes by W.H. Auden

Our whisper woke no clocks,We kissed and I was gladAt everything you did,Indifferent to thoseWho sat with hostile eyesIn pairs on every bed,Arms round each other's neck,Inert and vaguely sad.

We have no destiny assigned us:Nothing is certain but the body; we planTo better ourselves; the hospitals alone remind usOf the equality of man.

The way to read a fairy tale is to throw yourself in.

A dead man who never caused others to die seldom rates a statue.

The crack in the tea-cup opens A lane to the land of the dead.

...And the truth cannot be hid;Somebody chose their pain,What needn't have happened did.

Hunger allows no choiceTo the citizen or the police;We must love one another or die.

Let not Time deceive you, You cannot conquer Time.

The surest sign that a man has a genuine taste of his own is that he is uncertain of it.