H Auden Quotes

#1. I'm trying to create a collection of stories - the 'U.F.O.W.A.V.E.' songs are all stories. I haven't really taken direct lyrical influence from other songwriters, but my dad bought me a book of W.H. Auden's poems when I was younger, and the imagery really interested me.

King Krule

#2. As English poet W.H. Auden put it in "Apropos of Many Things": "We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the present and let our illusions die.

Richard Rohr

#3. Fate succumbs many a species: one alone jeopardises itself. - W. H. AUDEN,

Mitch Albom

#4. Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate. W. H. Auden

Gary L. Thomas

#5. The most conspicuous thing about suffering is, as W.H. Auden once observed, its banality. The day is green, the sun is shinging, someone is eating, or opening a window, the torturer's horse is scatching its innocent behind on a tree, and in a mere second someone we love is dead.

Michael Jackson

#6. The high-water mark, so to speak, of Socialist literature is W.H. Auden, a sort of gutless Kipling.

George Orwell

#7. Were all stars to disappear and die,
I should learn to look at an empty sky
And feel its total dark sublime,
Though this might take me a little time.
- W. H. Auden, "The More Loving One

W. H. Auden

#8. I read as much poetry as time allows and circumstance dictates: No heartache can pass without a little Dorothy Parker, no thunderstorm without W. H. Auden, no sleepless night without W. B. Yeats.

J. Courtney Sullivan

#9. I and the public know What all schoolchildren learn, Those to whom evil is done Do evil in return. - W. H. AUDEN

John Le Carre

#10. A culture," the poet W. H. Auden observed, "is no better than its woods.

Chris Hedges

#11. As W.H. Auden pointed out, the Reaper takes the rolling in money, the screamingly funny, and those who are very well hung. But that isn't where Auden starts his list. He starts with the innocent young.

Stephen King

#12. The Auden/Kallman relationship had this to be said for it: It affirmed that it's better to be blatant than latent.

Christopher Hitchens

#13. You searched through all my poets, From Sappho through to Auden, I saw the book fall from your hands, As you slowly died of boredom.

Nick Cave

#14. Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen.

Carol Ann Duffy

#15. As Auden is believed to have said, no poem saved a single Jew from the gas chambers. Never mind. Write the poems anyway. Play the music in spite of that.

Philip Pullman

#16. When Auden said his poetry didn't save one Jew from the gas chamber, he'd said it all.

Tom Stoppard

#17. WH Auden: "The first criterion of success in any human activity, the necessary preliminary, whether to scientific discovery or artistic vision, is intensity of attention or, less pompously, love.

ESPN Cricinfo

#18. I waited. Because with Eli, he was never trying to get you to finish for him. He always knew where he was going, even if it took a little while to get there.

Sarah Dessen

#19. Sometimes a question can hurt more than an answer.

Sarah Dessen

#20. For that is one of the greatest curses of the high-achieving mentality: the envy that it forces on you - the desperation, not simply to be loved, but to be loved, as Auden says, alone.

William Deresiewicz

#21. Morning would come before we knew it. It always did. But we still had the night, and for now, we were together, so I just closed my eyes and drank it all in.

Sarah Dessen