W. H. Auden Quotes
1907 – 1973
Anglo-American poet, author of "September 1, 1939".
23 quotesAbout W. H. Auden on Wikipedia
“Machines have no political opinions, but they have profound political effects.”
“A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.”
“Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.”
“The surest sign that a man has a genuine taste of his own is that he is uncertain of it.”
“Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.”
“Man is a history-making creature who can neither repeat his past nor leave it behind.”
“Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable.”
“A poet's hope: to be, like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere.”
“Anyone who has a child today should train him to be either a physicist or a ballet dancer.”
“Happy the hare at morning, for she cannot read / The Hunter's waking thoughts.”
“Aphorisms are essentially an aristocratic genre of writing.”
