“Happy the hare at morning, for she cannot read / The Hunter's waking thoughts.”

— W. H. Auden, The Dog Beneath the Skin (1935)

About W. H. Auden

1907 – 1973

Anglo-American poet, author of "September 1, 1939".

“We must love one another or die.”

“O let not Time deceive you, you cannot conquer Time.”

“The basic stimulus to the intelligence is doubt, a feeling that the meaning of an experience is not self-evident.”

“For God made all mankind to be happy, to be serene.”

“We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.”

“Have I not found a happy earth? I least should breathe a thought of pain.”

“Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.”

“I had a pleasant time with my mind, for it was happy.”

“Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind, But leave, oh! leave the light of Hope behind!”