W. H. Auden Quotes

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• Nobody is ever sent to Hell: he or she insists on going there.

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  Hell

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• Life is a picnic on a precipice.

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  Picnics, Life Is, Precipice

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• One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell.

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  Hell, Assembly, Factories

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• Civilizations should be measured by the degree of diversity attained and the degree of unity retained.

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  Respect, Civilization, Diversity

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• But once in a while the odd thing happens
  Once in a while the dream comes true
  And the whole pattern of life is altered
  Once in a while, the moon turns blue

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  Dream, Moon, Blue

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• We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.

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  Inspirational, Funny, Helping Others

  W H Auden (1981). “Antæus”, Ecco Press

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• The most important truths are likely to be those which society at that time least wants to hear.

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  Truth, Important, Want

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• We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and let our illusions die.

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  Change, Religion, Growth

  Wystan Hugh Auden (2011). “The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue”, p.105, Princeton University Press

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• No person can be a great leader unless he takes genuine joy in the successes of those under him.

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  Inspirational, Leadership, Joy

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• Without communication with the dead, a fully human life is not possible.

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  Communication, Life Is, Human Life

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• A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.

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  Real, Book, Reading

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• Money cannot buy the fuel of love but is excellent kindling.

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  Love, Fuel, Excellent

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• Those who hate to go to bed fear death; those who hate to get up fear life.

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  Hate, Bed, Get Up

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• All that we are not stares back at what we are.

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  Crazy, Mad, Staring

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• There's always another story. There's more than meets the eye.

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  Eye, Stories, More Than Meets The Eye

  W.H. Auden (2016). “Canción de cuna y otros poemas”, p.86, DEBOLS!LLO

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• A craftsman knows in advance what the finished result will be, while the artist knows only what it will be when he has finished it.

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  Artist, Craftsman, Results

  "Forewords and Afterwords" by W. H. Auden, ("A Poet of the Actual"), (p. 265), 1973.

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• The lights must never go out,
  The music must always play

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  Light, Play

  W.H. Auden (2016). “Canción de cuna y otros poemas”, p.159, DEBOLS!LLO

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• A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.

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  Inspirational, Graduation, Education

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• Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.

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  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Dyer's Hand (1963) "Notes on the Comic"

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• Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good.

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  Evil, Politics, Imagine

  "A Certain World". Book by W. H. Auden, 1970.

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• My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth.

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  People, Feelings, Politics

  W H Auden (1981). “Antæus”, Ecco Press

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  Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.

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  Love, Motivational, Strength

  W. H. Auden, Katherine Bucknell (2003). “Juvenilia: Poems, 1922-1928”, p.105, Princeton University Press

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• To be free is often to be lonely.

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  Lonely

  W. H. Auden, “In Memory Of Sigmund Freud”

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• I don't think the mystical experience can be verbalized. When the ego disappears, so does power over language.

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  Thinking, Mystical Experiences, Ego

  "Paris Review", Writers at Work, 4th series, (p. 266), 1972.

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• Poetry might be defined as the clear expression of mixed feelings.

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  Expression, Feelings, Might

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